Word: attained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only by spectacular violence and bloodshed do local strikes attain national prominence. Last week a street car* strike in New Orleans attained that prominence. Two strikers were killed, five trolleys were burned to the trucks, a car barn was dynamited, trackage was destroyed, switches cemented. The only other strike so far this year to "go rough" in like fashion has been at Gastonia, N. C. (see below...
Inventor Perl calculates to leave the ground at 110 m. p. h., reach 310 m. p. h. in 20 minutes, attain the stratosphere by a direct climb at 45 degrees (instead of the usual circling) in 100 minutes, thereafter...
...Oberth, bearing in mind the desirability of returning and landing on the earth, cogitated combining plane and rocket, using the latter for propulsion of the former as has been done experimentally at the Opel works in Germany. The core of his cogitations concerned the materials to be fused to attain speed in and out of Earth's atmosphere. He described two kinds of fuses-one using hydrogen, the other of alcohol-which he calculated would drive a plane 13,120 ft. per sec., or about 9,000 m. p. h., making the 240,000-mile trip in some...
...Author should choose their town and their county newspapers for his own. But they were ashamed that he had been famed for a "filthy mind" and dreaded lest he turn it indecently loose in their respectable little papers. They were pleased that by his very presence Marion would attain a renown not unlike Dayton, Tenn., and Marion, Ohio. They were mortified that his intellectual friends should learn that Marion still had hog-zoning laws, that Marion edited both its Democratic and its Republican paper in one & the same shop...
...officials called attention to President Walter S. Gifford's 1928 report. In this report, President Gifford said: "The American Telephone & Telegraph Co. accepts its responsibility for nationwide telephone service as a public trust. Its duty is to provide the American public with . . . service at a reasonable cost. To attain this end it is the policy of the company to pay only reasonable regular dividends. . . . Extra or special dividends are entirely inconsistent . . . and unsound." The reiteration of this statement was perhaps the booming of a new philosophy of business as well as a ponderous rap at lightweight Wall Street gamblers...