Word: barrelful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...absolutely no fault of the pilots; and that's exactly what happened. The next mistake you made was your statement that Mr. Kreider was coasting about in his Challenger. That's not true. It was Mr. Kreider who had been stunting; had just completed a lot of barrel rolls, and zoomed up - crashing into the bottom of the All American monoplane piloted by Captain Bruce. The next mistake you made was in stating that Captain Bruce's ship was an experimental plane. That is not true. The experimental plane had been flown around here for several months...
Officials of the Bureau of Standards affixed 700 stamps to envelopes, put them in a revolving barrel, turned it with electric power until the edges of the envelopes were worn off: Not one stamp left its envelope. Results: proof that there is no base for recent charges that U. S. stamps do not stick on as long as they used...
...special session of the Legislature to prepare new tax measures. Instead it prepared for his impeachment. Louisiana is, among other things, an oil state, with many a refinery for its own production and for shipments from Mexico and South America. Governor Long proposed a 5 cent tax upon every barrel of refined oil and gasoline. Unsentimental businessmen rose to curse him with the charge that he was inflicting the state with a manufacturers' tax which would drive industry out of Louisiana. The Long oil tax caused the impeachment explosion. He was charged with: 1) Using his ap pointive power...
...blast of compressed air plus a puff of gunpowder smoke to make it realistic. Ugo hurtled out and landed, unhurt, in a haystack. Now they have perfected the trick. The "gunner" brother takes care of the mechanism, guards it jealously. At each performance Ugo climbs into the barrel. Much depends on his brother's aim, but not all. Ugo has found that by beating his arms he can retard his speed and by shooting out his legs he can increase it. He has learned, too, that a twist of his shoulder will change his course. It is ideal circus...
...word concerning the legitimacy of testimonials and it is even more difficult to imagine how the reading public can tell whether a testimonial represents a donation or a purchase. From the standpoint of popular faith in advertising it would appear that one rotten testimonial apple would corrupt the entire barrel and that the distinction between good and bad testimonials will become as tenuous as the now somewhat archaic distinction between "good" and "bad" trusts. It is likely, however, that Mr. Kendall and his associates are interested primarily in the moral effect of their crusade. As far as immediate profits...