Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fare-cut was one more evidence of the Empty Seat Problem and the operators' determination to solve it, even during the sparsest flying season of the year. Other transport companies are trying analogous traffic stimulators. Last month Universal offered mileage books at exactly the railroad-Pullman rates. Last week Western Air Express offered similar rates to all public officials along its line. Colonial Airways offered its passengers freedom from tipping, and hot soup...
...Upon nominal recommendation of Col. Lindbergh, its "technical adviser." He was in Los Angeles with his wife last week, buying his specially built Lockheed Sirius, an open two seater capable of 200 Lockheed m. p. h. He open wrote his personal check...
From Feb. 3 to Feb. 5 the figure skating championship of the world will be held in Manhattan. There, last week, famed skaters were practicing their loops, rockers, counters, brackets-the 48 figures that every skater must know before entering a tournament. Last week in Madison Square Garden a charity pageant was arranged on the ice in which all the socially registered people who know how to skate took part. Tall, ruddy Irving Brokaw, onetime holder of many amateur titles, was the King, a role properly awarded him in recognition of his 20-year patronage of fancy skating...
...Last week it was announced that a tract unlike anything since the New Forest has been created in the U. S. Not kings but rich sportsmen will ride there, hunting foxes instead of stags. They have formed an organization, Southern Grasslands Hunt & Racing Foundation. They plan to raise $3,000,000. Memberships are $10,000 each. In Sumner County, Tennessee, they have bought about 15,000 acres (23 sq. mi.) of land to gallop over-rolling grass country, dotted with farms. They plan an endowment for the land's upkeep in perpetuity. It is the biggest tract made safe...
Before the national three-cushion championship ended in Manhattan last week, Layton had taken a beating from August Kieckhefer. If anyone, talking to Kieckhefer face to face, looks at his left eye, he has a feeling that Kieckhefer is interested in something else. To overcome the behavior of his eye, he shoots left-handed so that he can sight with his right eye. He beat Layton 50 to 38 in 58 innings, but three-cushion championships are decided by total number of games won and lost, and it was Layton and not Kieckhefer who played off in the finals against...