Word: airings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pont's synthetic silk, said to have the elasticity that rayon lacks, is a synthesis of coal, air and water called Nylon, or Fibre 66. Nylon is not yet on the market, but Du Pont has given three girls at the New York World's Fair a pair of Nylon stockings apiece which they have been wearing steadily for the past three weeks. Celanese Corp. of America is also working on a synthetic silk fibre, as yet unnamed...
...took his familiar witness' seat in the air-cooled Ways & Means Committee room, Henry Morgenthau had a nine-page statement all ready. In his resonant baritone voice the Gentleman Farmer who is Franklin Roosevelt's chief fiscal agent read off, without specifically recommending anything, the list of questions which Congress might "wish to re-examine...
...diving signal came. Prien began spinning his controls. Air roared from opened ballast tank vents, water rushed in to take its place. On the control board-called "the Christmas tree" because of its numerous red and green lights-lights flashed, showing Prien that the air induction valves, which carried air to the engine rooms, were closed and watertight. Down planed the Squalus. As the depth gauge showed nearly 50 ft., she began to level...
Through the telephone a voice barked into Lieutenant Naquin's ear that water was pouring into the engine room. The lights, all green, indicated that the air valves were shut. They were not all shut. Under the weight of water rushing in astern, the Squalus tilted bow up at a 45-degree angle, hesitated, shivered, slowly sank stern-first toward the bottom. The lights went...
Passing by in his car while the gang was tossing stones at the persons on the roof, the student stopped and opened fire on the rowdies with his air rifle. He was immediately mobbed and when the blood and crowds had cleared he was taken off to Stillman...