Word: ceilinged
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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To Canterbury's 25th birthday dinner in Manhattan last week went rich and famous men: retired Steelman James A. Farrell and Railroader Henry Havemeyer, trustees of the school; 100-odd old boys, among them Philip Burnham, editor of the Catholic weekly Commonweal. Too busy to attend was old Canterburian...
>Duke Ellington, with his 15-piece orchestra and two singers (Ivie Anderson and Herbie Jeffrey), played for two and a half hours in Colgate University's Memorial Chapel at Hamilton. N. Y. It was the first time that a major U. S. college had ever put a jazz band...
Over Lansing, Trip 21 circled for half an hour, waiting radio instructions to land while three other airliners went in first. Below the clouds the ceiling was 1,200 feet, visibility one mile-not the best weather of the year, but safe enough.
On Chicago's airport the lights were glowing-white, red, green. Men on the ground saw Trip 21 break out of the overcast, her red and green navigation lights sharp against the ceiling. From the control-tower speaker came Captain Scott's businesslike voice: "Contact-1,500"; i.e...
The other choice is to import the extra copper. Imports are now kept out by a 4? tariff; since Chilean copper is priced in U. S. ports at 10? a pound, it cannot compete with domestic when domestic is less than 14?. First to plump for tariff reduction in the...