Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this line of dust fuel for combustion engines were demonstrated at last year's Chemical Industries Exposition in Manhattan (TIME, Oct. 12). The original discovery was made when a grain elevator was once blown to the top of its shaft by the spontaneous combustion of dust at the bottom. The detail to be solved before automobiles may run on chaff: a continuous, measured fuel-feed system. Many people were struck by the fact that only last week the Foos Gas Engine Co. of Springfield, Ohio, announced a small new Diesel engine that could run with almost...
...point was that in 1922 the purchasing power of farm products fell from 205 to 116 points. All other products fell simultaneously from 241 to 167 points. "So," explained Mr. Jardine, "when we hit the bottom other industries stood at 167 points and agriculture stood at 116. ... At this time, after passing through three or four of the very worst years American agriculture ever has known, we have come back from the low point of 116 in 1922 to 147 in 1925, whereas nonagricultural products have dropped from...
Samuel Insull Jr.-short, stocky, quick-spoken-has never had the least doubt of his destiny. Always, yet without obnoxious parade, he has carried himself as the proper successor of a potent sire. There was no starting at the "bottom of the ladder" for him. Graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School, he studied public utility management problems in Europe and the U. S. under his father's skilled guidance. He has functioned as vice president and assistant to the president (his father) of the com pany he now heads. Now as president-with his training, with his 26 years...
...with gold teeth to a freckle-faced Irishman. They were shaking hands, and at a yank from Gold Teeth, Freckles crossed the border. "Come over to New Jersey," grinned Freckles, returning the yank. "I'll show you a good state!" The scene was 100 feet under the oozy bottom of the Hudson River and the Irishmen were Governors Smith of New York and Moore of New Jersey, "two outstanding Wets in a dry spot." They had on their tops hats and morning coats, for they were met- where a line of blue mosaic was worked in the tiled wall...
Across the path of the still speeding dolphin a Danish sailboat tacked, jiggled. Like a blunt-nosed swordfish the torpedo punctured the sail boat's hull, churned and frothed with the expiring might of its compressed air, was carried to the bottom as the relatively worthless fishing smack sank...