Word: armstrongs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perennial gift to Sunday feature editors for the last five years has been the Armstrong Seadrome, vividly imaginative project for a chain of floating airports across the Atlantic. The perfect publicity subject, it offered serious readers masses of data on construction of huge platforms, stabilized high above the waves by means of weighted pillars, on problems of anchorage, navigation, operation, economics. For gumchewers there were exciting pictures of a seadrome at night, in midocean position, with flags flying, floodlights blazing, beacons stabbing the dark sky, gorgeous express planes gliding down to safe landings. Even the windows of the drome...
Last week the Armstrong Seadrome leaped out of its accustomed setting in the feature supplements to land on page one of the nation's press when the Federal Government indicated that it was ready to help finance the project, that it might even build and operate the whole system itself...
Money. For weeks Inventor Edward R. Armstrong & backers have been trying to borrow $30,000,000 from Public Works Administration to build five seadromes and string them out to Spain by way of the Azores. Aside from obvious national advantages to the U. S. the application cited such claims...
...summary: HARVARD YALE Potter, l.e. r.e., Graham Barrows, l.t. r.t., Straus Lawrence, l.g. r.g., Jenkins Emory, c. c., Armstrong Locke, r.g. l.g., Bull Knowles, r.t. l.t., Stewart Hausen, r.e. l.e., DuVal deGive, q.b. q.b., Loomis Fuller, r.h.b. l.h.b., Cox Rabinovitz, l.h.b. r.h.b., Lynch Gibbs, f.b. f.b., Lamb...
...planned, but is waiting in the pantry for his apprehensive master's signal. Worse, the girl, too, is in the house. The results of Derwent's manipulations with a wall clock may puzzle you, but if you think it over a while you will find that Playwright Armstrong has played fair. Cleverest twist to the whole bag of theatrical tricks occurs when Derwent saves himself from detection by impulsively blurting the only truthful statement he makes during the police inquiry...