Word: hops
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...bombers) are famed among flying men for their long record of safety and reliability. The first B-17 cracked up and burned on test, but since the first Flying Fortress was delivered to the Air Corps, B-17s have flown about 8,000,000 miles, made many a long hop, without a single crash, through three and a half years. Up to last week most serious damage any of the big fellows had had was a buckled landing gear. Last week the spell was broken. Flying toward the mist-shrouded San Jacinto Mountains, 20 miles southeast of Riverside, Calif...
...days later, the Duke left the Duchess' side again, this time to hop into a U. S. Navy plane and pay a call on President Roosevelt, whom he had not seen since 1919. Returning from his visit aboard the Tuscaloosa, the Duke told reporters that he and the President had discussed naval bases and CCC camps, which he thought he might try in the Bahamas...
...bits admits you to the Freshmen Record Hop tonight at the Commuters Center in Dudley Hall from 9 o'clock until 1:00. During the intermission the dance committee will show movies of the Brown, Army and Penn games...
Divorced. Homer Martin, onetime Baptist preacher, onetime hop-step-jump champion, onetime president of the United Auto Workers, now describing himself as a "manufacturer's agent"; from Norina M. Martin; after 18 years of marriage; in Detroit. Grounds: she had a violent temper...
...with a Walpurgis nightmare calculated to turn little children's hair white. But Illustrator Nielsen's jagged scenes, plus a new high in animation technique, made it by far Fantasia's best act. As Fantasia took shape, a whole new troupe of Disney comic characters appeared: Hop Low, the self-thwarting little mushroom, who tries to do the Chinese Dance from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, but can't keep up with the big mushrooms; Ben Ali Gator, premier danseur of an ostrich ballet set to Ponchielli's corny Dance of the Hours; Susan...