Word: beacon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hartford, Conn., freight cars lumber along old trolley tracks from the plant to the New Haven Railroad. The air of the whole neighborhood palpitates with the muffled thunder of Wasps and Hornets on test stands in the research buildings. And every six seconds the white finger of the airport beacon flicks over the fleshening skeleton of a huge new factory extension growing from the main plant...
...Beacon Hill hideaway is popularly supposed to be a scene of secret orgies between Bill Cunningham and a mythical secretary named Ima Smack that Bill once invented to explain his delay in answering letters. One day a Boston department-store executive gave Bill a life-size wax model of Miss Smack. Bill stretched her out among the littered papers on his couch, with her skirts up and a champagne glass in her hand, horrified an old gentleman who came to see him. Bill tried to explain that Miss Smack was a model, but the old gentleman went away muttering: "Your...
...Martians were planning to send the Earth a signal, this week would be the time. If they send a light signal, the beacon will have to be of at least one and one-half trillion candlepower to be visible in Mt. Wilson's 100-inch telescope. No plans were afoot on Earth to communicate with Mars...
...businessmen at The Copley-Plaza, followed by such a promotion campaign as Boston newspaperdom has never known. Subway posters, newspaper advertisements, sound trucks, radio speakers and an airplane sign-trailer all shouted the news of the Transcript's "Newscope Edition." Two days later, when the Newscope Edition appeared, Beacon Street saw, instead of the Transcript's dowdy old front page, a bold, five-column layout, of which nearly two columns were pictures. The text frankly aped TIME'S news treatment...
...hole in the overcast; 200m.p.h.; an odd pressure in your ears; a old jet of air in your face; a pretty hostess handing you hot chicken; a sleek transport drifting in to a landing, flaps extended like an old lady spreading her skirts as she sits down; a lean beacon fingering the dark. An airline is all these things, and it is a dollar-&-cents business. Last week the U. S. airline which once was shakier than most in dollars & cents took its place in the major league of Big Business-the stock of American Airlines, previously on the Curb...