Word: piggyback
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comparatively few people in the U. S. who are in a hurry to fly across the Atlantic, this will be a tantalizing summer. Last week the upper component of the British Short-Mayo Composite, the seaplane Mercury ("The piggyback plane"), arrived in Foynes, Eire, after an uneventful round trip to Canada and the U. S. And last week off City Island, N. Y., the Lufthansa Nordmeer, flicked like a bug from the deck of its catapult ship, the Friesenland, skittered across to the Azores just after its colleague, the Nordwind, had skittered from the Azores to Port Washington, Long Island...
...English have no notion of using piggyback planes in regular transatlantic service; last week's flight of the Mercury was a simple military experiment. Nonetheless, the Mercury will twice more shuttle across the Atlantic from Foynes to Montreal and Port Washington. More serious items on Imperial Airways' transatlantic schedule: five flights by the De Havilland four-motor Albatross, four flights by the Cabot, a seaplane of the same genus as the Caledonia and the Cambria which made ten flights...
...impressed on the electric power cables. Through this broad channel they ride easily so that messages are clearly heard by any patrol car, provided it is within a half mile of the line. The great power flow of 275,000 volts so smooth that the radio signals riding piggyback are not distorted...
...admirers the picture should be the most effective of the rapid series of four she has made since becoming a star last winter. In the course of her impersonation Shirley Temple sings two songs (Animal Crackers in My Soup, When I Grow Up), impersonates Whistler's mother, rides piggyback, does a solo tap-dance on a piano top, learns how to use a finger bowl. Her bridge work, replacing a baby tooth lost last spring, is unnoticeable...