Word: bagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...20th Century Limited in Manhattan strode a tall, hatless, tousled young man with a traveling bag in one hand which he would let no porter carry. To Broadway he sped, for he was Howard Hughes Jr. cinema producer, and in the bag were the reels of his picture Hell's Angels on which he spent nearly three years and over $4,000,000 (TIME, June 9). He had personally conveyed the film to Manhattan for its Eastern premi?...
...crash most dreaded by airmail men is the one that ends in fire. Unless the pilot can extricate the bags from the flames, the mail is surely lost, there being no perfected means of dumping the bags in flight in an emergency.* Post Office officials eyed with interest an experiment begun last week by National Air Transport and Railway Express Agency, with a fireproof and heat-proof cargo pouch developed by Johns-Manville Corp. This new bag was said to withstand a fire hot enough to melt sheet-metal and fuse pipes, without allowing even the sealing wax on letters...
...will use the pouch for valuable express shipments. One drawback to adoption of the bag by the Post Office is its weight?20 Ib. as compared to the present 6-lb. type...
...David Lloyd George. Next they started a great national campaign for "Empire Free Trade" (TIME, Dec. 2, et seq.). Contributions to their campaign fund were handled by Treasurer Beaverbrook. Suddenly he vvithdrew from the "United Empire Party " returned all contributions to contributors (thus leaving Viscount Rotnermere holding an empty bag) and joined with Stanley Baldwin on the basis that "food taxes," a major feature of the Empire Free Trade" scheme, would be submitted to popular referendum by the Conservatives if returned to power (TIME, March 17). Tiring soon of slow Sheep Dog Baldwin, mercurial Baron Beaverbrook has recently resumed alliance...
...Clermont-Ferrand, France, a fox terrier dragged a brown paper bag to a policeman's feet. Stooping to pat the dog, the policeman looked into the bag, found a newborn baby...