After the war the American versions flew USA airmail routes cross-country.
I used to make plastic models of these and similar planes when I was Mr. B.’s age (11 going on 12) and hang them by threads from my bedroom ceiling.
UPDATE: These birds, photographed sometime after 1918, were from Benbrook Field, southwest of Fort Worth. Photo from the Benbrook Public Library.
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Look no farther to find out where jobs are being created these days:
“The Lone Star State had 10,629,300 non-farm jobs as of November, a gain of 451,100 jobs since the same month in 2006, an analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data by The Business Journals’ On Numbers shows.
“Louisiana was a distant second in the number of non-farm jobs added during that five-year span, with 57,000.”
Read. It. All.
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“The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature
Well, I did enjoy Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
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MyOldRV is on the job, thanks to the mini-boom in shale oil these days due to $100 a barrel pricing. It pays good but it can be a lonely life:
“One of the impediments to commerce in Texas has always been the distances involved and the remote aspect of some areas of the state…Oil field gate guarding is a recent addition to the oil fields of Texas. I can find little reference to it prior to 2006…[T]his job is not for everybody. Just so happens it fits me and Miss Kathy like a worn pair of Lucchese Ropers.”
Worth a look. Enjoy.
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Since their Hamas rulers played Grinch and cancelled Christmas.
“There hasn’t been a Christmas tree in Gaza City’s main square since Hamas pushed the Palestinian Authority out of Gaza in 2007 and Christmas is no longer a public holiday…Of the 1.5 million Palestinians now living in the Gaza Strip, fewer than 1,400 are Christian and those who can are leaving.”
This was in the ultra-lefty Guardian, which usually reserves its ink for Israel-bashing, so it’s a story you might have missed.
Via Simply Jews.
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