Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Reporter Martin Quigley quit his job with the Chicago evening Post and two months later began publishing the Exhibitors Herald. After absorbing two competitors, Motography, Motion Picture World, the magazine became the potent Exhibitors Herald-World and Publisher Quigley was a millionaire, with a summer home in Connecticut, cabin cruiser, polo ponies. By his acquired enthusiasm for polo, Publisher Quigley was impelled to back Editor Peter Vischer in starting Polo magazine, which he subsequently sold to Harper & Bros. (TIME, May 19). Also he publishes the smart fortnightly Chicagoan, which not long ago "turned the corner...
...pronounced in every picture he has made. If Lightnin' is any indication, the most racy and witty of U. S. public characters, colyumists, unofficial ambassadors to the world and licensed government jesters, is turning cute. Best shot: Lightnin' telling lies to a stranger he meets in a cabin in the woods...
...flown but "might try it sometime with an old-timer who would not stunt." For stunting he sees no justification, "can't believe that it is as necessary as it is dangerous. If I had my way it would be barred." Suspicious, he would not even enter the cabin of an amphibian at Newark Airport to examine the controls on the ground...
...days afterward, Buffalo Child Long Lance sat in a plane piloted by Parker ("Shorty") Cramer, onetime Arctic flying mate of Sir George Hubert Wilkins. When Pilot Cramer pulled a lever. Long Lance was dumped through the cabin floor into space with a parachute billowing over his head...
...nonstop 500 mi. with 40 passengers, 1,000 mi. with 20. In general conformation the 8-40 will resemble the 10-passenger Sikorsky amphibian now in common use. The wingspread, however, will be 114 ft.; the loaded weight, 30,000 lb.; and the 58-ft. hull will have the cabin facilities of a commodious cruiser...