Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presents: from His Majesty's Govern-ment a $100,000 mansion, unexpectedly delayed in construction so that Paul & Margaritas had to move into a friend's house in Athens this week, before starting on their wedding trip; from His Majesty's Cabinet & Armed Forces a $10,000 emerald & diamond necklace; from the Greek Royal Yacht Club a yacht; from the President of France a tablecloth; from the Duke & Duchess of Windsor a gift (nature undisclosed) explained by announcing that "the Duke was an old friend of Prince Paul...
...cubic feet, enough to fill the LZ-130's 7,000,000-odd cubic foot gas bag and compensate it for the loss of about 300,000 cubic feet each time it crosses the Atlantic on the airship's projected 18 round trips this year. As helium costs about 1? per cubic foot to produce and is sold by the Government at an estimated 1¼? per cubic foot, each completed trip will cost the LZ-130 at least $6,000 for helium alone...
...Spokane, Wash, flyer named Nick Mamer won a New York-Spokane air race. Two years later Nick Mamer made the first round-trip flight between St. Paul and Seattle, presently started an airline between Spokane and St. Paul. Though part of this route spans some of the most tortured country in the U. S. and there were no radio beacons or even lights in those days, Nick Mamer's success convinced the U. S. Post Office that the run was feasible. Northwest Airlines, which had begun flying between Chicago and St. Paul in 1926, thereupon absorbed both Nick Mamer...
...birth-he is actually a British subject-was then arrested on a deportation warrant charging him with illegal entry into the U. S. Upon intervention of Idaho's Senator Borah, who stays at the Robinson home when in Moscow, the charge was dropped. His status regularized by a trip to Cuba last summer, from which he returned on an immigration visa. Doc Robinson is currently awaiting naturalization papers...
...Camera fans, polish up your lenses-and you may win a FREE TRIP TO HOLLYWOOD with ALL EXPENSES PAID WHILE THERE!" Whoever submits the best picture of Cecil B. DcMille, Hollywood producer, taken during his visit here next Tuesday, will be given this GRAND PRIZE by the Boston Sunday Advertiser, a local publication...