Word: lookout
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Dan'l died in 1906, Grandma mourned him, then went on her travels. She visited her scattered family. She saw the sights of Washington. She went up Lookout Mountain and had dinner there...
...room mansion high on a New Jersey headland, onetime country house of the late Oscar Hammerstein, black cigar & light opera tycoon. Oriental rugs, costly new furniture adorned the living rooms. Beneath the house were labyrinthine tunnels where boatloads of liquor could be stored. On the roof was a lookout post and a searchlight for flashing messages out to sea. Conveniently placed was a well-stocked arsenal. Warlike trenches zigzagged about and machine guns stood on concrete emplacements. In a desk were the syndicate's account books, showing profits of $2,000,000 in the last six months. Among...
...feeling persisted that the Board had no set policy. Senators and Congressmen who helped write the Farm Act attempted to explain to Board members what it meant, what their purposes were, but their words only added chaos to confusion. Last week Chairman Legge sought to increase the foreign "lookout posts" for U. S. agriculture from three to ten. He explained: "If we expect to expand our exports and understand our surpluses at home we must know conditions abroad." Proposed U. S. farm outposts: London, Berlin, Paris, Marseilles, Copenhagen, Bucharest, Buenos Aires, Melbourne, Johannesburg, Shanghai. Meanwhile, with the harvest almost over...
Lakehurst to Friedrichshafen. Except for brief electrical storms, navigation was simple for Capt. Ernst A. Lehmann on the Grafs final 5,300 miles from Lakehurst to Friedrichshafen. He kept lookout for the lost Swiss flyers (TIME, Sept. 2) and detoured over Santander, Spain, to salute King Alfonso and Queen Victoria. This detour was a prudent courtesy, because Spain is planning a dirigible hangar at Seville, which will be useful when the Germans establish their Europe-South America Zeppelin line. But some passengers were vexed at the out-of-the-way delay. Their nerves were jumpy because one Frederick S. Hogg...
Feeling none too comfortable, the lookout reported to the radio man. The radio man laconically flashed the message ashore. Later on, the Coldwater's company discussed the matter at mess. It was no night, they agreed for airmen...