Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Gregg took charge of the Bureau in 1934, it was struggling along on $3,700,000 a year, was generally considered out of date. Today the Bureau is getting ahead. Air-mass analysis (study of weather phenomena in the upper air) has been taken up with a will. At six stations, small automatic radios attached to sounding balloons send upper-air recordings to ground receivers. At twelve stations, airplanes make daily recording nights. At 79 stations, pilot balloons furnish upper-air wind velocities. The Bureau has greatly expanded its special aids to airlines...
...Government is underwriting mortgages up to 90% no one could deny. Colonel Ayres warned: "The most urgent economic problem that we face is that of making next year the transition from this pump-priming recovery over into a long-term recovery carried forward by business instead of one pushed along by Government. . . . Our people have quite generally become convinced that Government is primarily responsible for business activity. It is as futile for us to believe that we can spend ourselves rich as for us to suppose that a man can drink himself sober...
...also sells its patrons radio sets, tubes, phonographs, records. NBC's thriving rival, Columbia Broadcasting System, until last week had no such manufacturing interests. Then its debonair young President William S. Paley announced that CBS had purchased American Record Corp., was thus "broadening the base of its service along natural lines...
...George Mohr was waiting in the reception room. "Bring in the donor," called Dr. Schroeder to a nurse. The nurse phoned a hospital employe, who ran to the reception room. There, nervously pacing the floor, was Arthur Fuller, Type II, waiting to give a transfusion to his mother. "Come along," said the employe...
...such signs and tokens, this book, for an English-speaking person marooned in the middle of the 20th Century, would be the book of books for him to have along...