Word: barrels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...importance, and answers an often-heard question: "What good are air races?" The latest Gee-Bee is of radical design, a fat bumblebee of a plane with small wings and an enormous tail. Wags dubbed it "the flying silo." Last week Zantford Granville began construction of a barrel-shaped transport ship patterned directly after the racer. Its wing is larger but its fuselage is barrel-shaped, its tail big, its nose fat to hold a 700-h.p. Cyclone. With pilot & seven passengers it is supposed to cruise 197 m.p.h., hit a top speed of 230, land under...
SLADE OF THE YARD-Richard Essex- McBride ($2). Lessinger confounded Scotland Yard, until Slade (formerly John Barrel, M. P.) sought sleuthing as a road from shame...
...Estimates by brewing interests place the probable consumption at 40,000,000 bbl. within the next two years. On this basis the revenue would be in the neighborhood of $200,000,000 annually. . . . The committee was informed that brewers could produce a barrel of beer and deliver it for $6.26, exclusive of taxes. . . . The legalization of beer will give employment to 75,000 men in breweries, about 225,000 in its retail distribution...
...Manhattan time the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street cabled to say in bankers' jargon that she had "earmarked" (with her white tags) $95,550,000 of Bank of England gold, thereby making it the property in London of the Federal Reserve. Promptly the Federal Reserve sent a blue-clad, barrel-chested guard to tie onto the two closet doors tags bearing no words but a number. This number served twice as an earmark in the next few minutes. It was first written down on the books of the Federal Reserve to the credit of the Bank of England, then transferred...
...jamming proration down the throats of oil operators at the point of his militia's bayonets. Although Governor Sterling's straight-from-the-hip action, together with that of his neighbor Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray of Oklahoma, skyrocketed crude oil prices from loc a barrel last year to more than $1, he had to defy a Federal Court to do it. Three Federal judges had ordered the Texas Rail-road Commission to cease & desist from enforcing its proration regulations until the conservation law could be reviewed. Governor Sterling, eying the chaos around him, set about enforcing...