Word: bag
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like their colleagues overseas and on the same day, airship pilots of the U. S. Army Air Service had their troubles with a huge gas bag, in this case the TC-3, a nonrigid twin-motored airship of only 200,000 cu. ft., scarcely one-tenth the volume of the R-33. Sailing from Scott Field, III., the TC3 broke her rudder at Caseyville, Ill., soon after going aloft. For two hours, she drifted at the will of the wind, then negotiated a landing at Black Walnut, Mo., little the worse for wear...
...bag. Naturally, the Senators and the outside world took this to mean that the Government intended to authorize an additional issue of five billions of francs−more money−higher prices−more inflation...
...last two years, a peculiar annual cycle in business has been seen. Dealers have refused to stock up and have thrown the task of "holding the bag" back on the manufacturer. Now the manufacturing industry, broadly speaking, is overbuilt with productive facilities, as a result of War and post-War conditions. Consequently, when genuine demand begins to increase, It one manufacturer fails to advance his production rate swiftly, his competitor will do so and grab the business. Thus, as soon as buying begins, output is tremendously stimulated all around; and so out of proportion are most U. S. productive facilities...
...formerly of the dancing team of Nip and Tuck, is now playing in "The Grab Bag". He is coaching the chorus of the Hasty Pudding show between his Boston performances. In an interview at his dressing room last night he declared, "There's no reason why I ought to be proud of those boys, but I am, for they're good...
This dancing is under the direction of Thomas, Nip, formerly of the vaudeville team of Nip and Tuck, and now with Ed Wynn in his new show "The Grab Bag." Mr. Nip is warm in his praise of the chorus dancing, declaring "they know more steps and do them better than the girls in any show in town...