Word: brooding
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...When the heavy boot of the 1934 air mail purge kicked fledgling subsidiaries out of many a big U. S. airlines nest, Canadian Colonial, a retarded bird from the brood of Aviation Corp., was able to go on flapping up the Hudson on its 342-mile route between Manhattan and Montreal. Under indifferent management, unfavorable airline conditions, it grew slowly to be a pipsqueak goose and for a long time brought its 15,000 stockholders nothing but deficits...
When Canadian Colonial left the brood of Aviation Corp. (largest unit, American Airlines) stocky, purposeful Sigmund Janas was assistant to American's President C. R. Smith. Earlier he had learned the tricks of financing as Deputy Superintendent of Banks in California, the tricks of airline operation as president's assistant for Western Air Express. Close friend of Motorman Errett Lobban Cord (American's chief stockholder) he had also learned how to combine the tricks of operation and banking, take over ah airline (as Cord had American) and make it tick...
...most Bostonians, Massachusetts' legal holiday on April 19 is better known as the day of The Marathon than the anniversary of the first battle of the Revolutionary War. For parents who have to stand on a curbstone for hours so that their saucer-eyed brood may catch a glimpse of the first gaunt & gasping runner plodding along Commonwealth Avenue, and for motorists who are forced to detour all around town, the Marathon is a notorious nuisance. But for chronic gawps, students of foot racing and officials of the Boston Athletic Association (who sponsor the run), it is a great...
...piano was not available at that time of night. In keeping with his Marxian ideas of property, he then asked to be taken where there was a piano. This demand conflicted with the legal conscience of the Law School men, and he was sent back to his room to brood on the injustice...
...practical Premier, Paderewski was a first-rate pianist. He let correspondence pile up, let the telephone ring itself hoarse. In the rough & tumble of practical politics, he was a pushover for Poland's tough, military Marshal Pilsudski. In December 1919, Paderewski resigned, left Poland and politics to brood alone at his estate in Morges, Switzerland...