Word: groundedness
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Stranded in Scarboro, Me., when fog grounded a Bangor-Boston airliner, Doris Duke bought a $2 ticket, climbed into a bus. At Portsmouth she had a sandwich and cup of coffee in the railroad station, thanked the driver: "I'm awfully glad you stopped here. I was starving." At Boston...
Hero, One of the Northwest's great heroes is husky, hearty Frank Dorbandt. He has rushed serum to many a stricken Eskimo, carried antitoxin to many an ailing Indian, flown many a sick white to far-off hospitals. In 1930 he risked his life in an air search for...
If Fred Frankhouse had reached first base, the crowd of 50,000 at New York's Polo Grounds might well have seen another inning or two of one of the most discussed baseball games in history. But Frankhouse did not reach first. Catcher Cochrane picked the ball out of the...
When Manhattan's eccentric spinster Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel died in 1931, she left to five charitable institutions the bulk of the $36,000,000 fortune which old John Gottlieb Wendel had founded in the fur trade and grounded in Manhattan. To small Drew University of Madison, N. J...
"The second step was recovery. ... I could cite statistics of our national progress. ... I also could cite statistics to show the great rise in the value of farm products. . . . But the simplest way for each of you to judge recovery lies in the plain facts of your own individual situation...