Word: bowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus last week did the House of Morgan bow to the Federal Banking Act of 1933 which cleaves the deposit business from the securities business as of June 16. Last year when the Senate Banking & Currency Committee was dragging ghosts out of No. 23 Wall Street, J. Pierpont Morgan testified that "straight banking" was a more important part of his business than supposedly fabulous securities deals. Since there is practically no securities business today, Morgan partners simply elected to continue receiving deposits on which they pay, say, 1%, loaning or investing them at, say, 3%. Drexel & Co., Philadelphia branch...
...electrocuted while working near high voltage wires in the darkness. Also in the darkness the cruiser Milwaukee had collided with the destroyer Simpson, smashing in the latter's bow and sending her to drydock. And while the fighting was fiercest, Captain William Woods Smyth, commanding the battleship Tennessee, had died of a sinus infection on the hospital ship Relief. Significance- Naval maneuvers have a way of firing the imagination of otherwise level-headed journalists and Exercise M proved to be no exception. "The most impressive and important maneuvers ever conducted by the U. S. battle fleet," breathlessly reported...
...which appears at speeds of 500 m.p.h. or higher. Plane speeds have not reached the point where "compressibility burble" has become a practical limiting factor, but propeller tip speeds are near it. "Compressibility burble" is a sharp break away of the airflow from the upper wing surface like the bow-waves of a ship, leaving the air directly behind extremely rarefied...
...speed was reduced to 16 knots. The oscillograph detector was not used to find the distance, but the liner's position was computed by cross-bearings from shore radio stations. Few minutes before the crash, while the beacon indicated the lightship to be three degrees off the starboard bow, the signals were suddenly lost. The oscillograph detector went dead also. Then the lightship's fog whistle was heard. Every officer on the Olympic's bow agreed the sound was off the starboard bow. To play safe Captain Binks ordered the helmsmen to veer ten degrees farther...
...Rabbits got the jump on the Blue men with two victories at the very start, but then began to weaken when Lawrence N. Stevens '36 and Laurence D. Dawes '35 were forced to bow to their opponents in closely contested matches. However, the victories of Abram T. Collier, II '34 and Henry C. Brooks '36 turned the tide to Leverett's favor, and gave the House champions victory...