Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...blazing the virgin aerial trail from New York to Miami to Rio de Janeiro to Buenos Aires; NYRBA planes were the first to cross the perilous Andes between Santiago and Buenos Aires many weeks before they were followed by Pan American Grace Airways; NYRBA's pilots explored the lower West Indies and the East Coast of South America to the Guianas many weeks before Lindbergh "blazed the trail" to Paramaribo; explored thousands of miles of unknown country along the river mouths of the Orinoco and the Great Amazon, long coastal stretches of the Guianas, Venezuela, and Northern Brazil...
...drought in the valleys of the Ohio, Potomac and lower Mississippi ceased to be front page news as soon as President Hoover had held his White House conferences and told the States affected how to set up relief machinery without U. S. Treasury aid (TIME, Aug. 18). The mild public hysteria that had marked official action and pronouncements subsided. But still little or no rain fell over the blighted areas of Arkansas, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. Last week as the drought passed into its fifth month Government officials took fresh stock...
...boisterous Bill & Lem were not clapped into a Moscow gaol last week. Higher Soviet authorities, closely attuned to U. S. white opinion, suspended the sentence of the lower court, ordered Bill & Lem deported, "because they are persons imbued with the spirit of race prejudice and therefore dangerous, menacing persons to have in Russia...
...fuselage, dragging a big 'chute (60 ft.) billowing up and over the tail. The plane, suspended by its centre wing section from the parachute, floated earthward at about 15 m. p. h.. swinging and gyrating as it settled. On alighting, only damage was to landing-gear and lower wing...
...cabinet he chose five of the "colonel group." With the aid of his War veterans' organization, he may be able to elect a sizeable majority of his supporters next November. Aperiodically Dictator Pilsudski calls in the newspaper reporters and pours out a string of abuse on the Sejm (Lower Chamber), its members and the present Polish constitution. The worst expletive newshawks have felt free to print to date has been the famed "The Sejm is a prostitute!" (TIME, July 9, 1928 et seq.). Last week the Dictator enlarged a little on his usual theme of excoriation. Said...