Word: beacon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Department of Commerce issued this order: "Because of the congestion on the New York-Washington airways, it has become necessary to enforce strictly the right side flying rule. Beacon lights constitute the centre line thereof." Over all or parts of the route, four scheduled airlines operate a total of 36 planes...
...strange new beam of light appeared in place of an old one which had vanished. The new one: an advertising searchlight designed by one Alfred Gauthier, to etch letters and legends in the sky even when there are no clouds to provide a background. The old one: the revolving beacon atop Hotel St. George in Brooklyn, erected three years ago by Sperry Gyroscope Co. to guide aviators and to advertise the hotel. Recently the Department of Commerce ruled that only beacons actually on an established airway might use white lights; all others must be red. The hotel placed...
...Commonwealth of Massachusetts, superlative conservative, has progressed to the consideration of a bill providing for legalized birth control. Thirty-one states have already passed a law resembling that which is causing so much agitation on Beacon Street. Nor is the move as sectionalized as the stir in the local press would have it. The Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate is now considering a bill permitting doctors to give contraceptive information to their patients at their discretion, to publish such information in medical journals and to send and receive it through the mails...
...Vinmont (onetime Jacques Weinberger) of Blair & Co. formed Pacific Western Oil. Mr. McDuffie has a new home in San Marino (Pasadena suburb), plays strenuous tennis on his own court, uses no tobacco. His office is in the new black-&-gold Richfield Building which is crowned by a mighty air beacon. This building was erected by Clarence M. Fuller, spectacular marketer and advertiser whom Mr. McDuffie succeeded as Richfield president...
Cigaret Democrat. Jubilant Democracy, back in office for the first time in 16 years, swarmed up Boston's Beacon Hill, packed themselves in under the great gilded dome of the State House to watch Joseph Buell Ely become Governor. Out on the Common guns boomed. Governor Ely's inaugural address recommended: 1) a $20,000,000 bond issue to help unemployment; 2) legislative action to memorialize Congress to modify the Volstead Act; 3) a curb on labor injunctions; 4) investigation to regain for New England full control of the Boston & Maine R. R. and the New York, New Haven & Hartford...