Word: roughnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interior of the west coast, two lines are operating. The more important is Lloyd Aereo Boliviano, a German-owned concern which carries passengers over the rough Bolivia plateau. The other is Faucett Aviation Co., headed by Elmer J. Faucett of the U. S., who has settled in Peru. U. S. businessmen who are forced to enter the Peruvian interior hire Faucett taxi-planes. He portages them over mountains three miles high...
Fast Tank. The Army sent a wicked-looking military contraption charging over a rough Maryland field and among sand dunes at 42 m. p. h. It was the newest thing in combat tanks. Powered by a 12-cylinder Liberty motor, it rushed 62 m. p. h. down a road on eight hard-rubber tires. In 14 minutes it was converted into a caterpillar tractor, ready to hurtle its ten tons, its three-man crew, its full armament, cross-country nearly four times as fast as any tank similarly armored had moved before...
...local strikes attain national prominence. Last week a street car* strike in New Orleans attained that prominence. Two strikers were killed, five trolleys were burned to the trucks, a car barn was dynamited, trackage was destroyed, switches cemented. The only other strike so far this year to "go rough" in like fashion has been at Gastonia, N. C. (see below...
...groan, then a mingled roar from the huge gallery outside, told Espinosa that something had happened to Jones's second shot on the final hole. Heading for a trap to the left of the green the ball had stopped just short, in rough grass. The next thing Espinosa heard was a loud, but not wholehearted, cheer. Jones had pitched up, but his ball had stopped 12 feet short of the pin. "Let me look," blurted Espinosa and went to the locker room window...
...those trailers, M. I. T. and Syracuse, and two of the supposed chief contenders, California and Cornell, were not even given a chance to trail. Instead, their shells sank and the 32 oarsmen were forced to dive into the rough-watered Hudson, to be picked up by Poughkeepsie police launches. And, as darkness annoyed the radio broadcasters, Junior Glendon's unbeaten Columbia crew shot first across the finish line, with Washington second...