Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Threading its way up Manhattan's crowded East River one night last week with 126 passengers aboard, the Colonial Line steamship Lexington (New York-Providence) sighted the freighter Jane Christenson dead ahead, shrilled a warning. Before the Lexington could get out from under the freighter knifed her amidships, nearly broke her in half. While the ship's orchestra played "Somebody Stole My Gal," passengers waded across decks knee-deep in water. Tooting furiously, harbor tugs bustled to the Lexington's side, took off passengers & crew almost before they knew it. The Lexington sank in ten minutes, took...
...horizontal line. Like many another motormaker who learned from Walter P. Chrysler's Airflow models of last year Mr. Ford moved his engine forward about 8 in. over the front axle, thus equalizing the distribution of weight. In addition he lengthened the old transverse springs, mounted them ahead of the front axle and behind the rear axle, stretching the spring base to 123 in. but retaining the old 112-in. wheelbase...
...rumbling voiced by businessmen at a Congress of American Industry, Donald Richberg taunted: "Unless the businessmen of America have been shell-shocked into nervous impotence, there must come a time when they will respond to the fighting spirit of that old admiral who signaled, 'Damn the torpedoes. Go ahead...
Henry Ford damned the torpedoes two months ago and has been going ahead ever since...
...Ahead of the Industry was what even-one, from Henry Ford down, agreed would be a better year than last (see p. 59). Behind was a year that had all the fixings of prosperity but little of the turkey. Production of passenger cars and trucks in 1934 was 2,885,000 units, up 45% from 1933 and a clear 100% gain over 1932. Trucks alone accounted for 589,000 units, up 65%. Yet profits failed to keep pace with volume because of higher prices for labor and materials. Average automobile costs last week were estimated to be 18% above...