Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Society of Orthodontists in Manhattan, Elizabeth McDowell, professor of speech at Columbia University, declared that Franklin Roosevelt's broadcasting was of unusual quality because his mouth is "built for sound"-wide jaw, low, wide, not too flat palatal arch, a tongue as wide as the arch. Miss McDowell declined to describe Mrs. Roosevelt's oral acoustics...
...Pacific Triangle" between Hawaii, Puget Sound, the Aleutian Islands. Fifty thousand men would take part on 160 vessels, in 450 planes. Potent newcomers to the Fleet would be the battleship Idaho, just modernized for $14,000,000; the Ranger, first U. S. aircraft carrier built as such from the keel up; five more heavy "treaty" cruisers; destroyers Dewey and Farragut, swiftest blue-water craft ever to join the Navy and first of a long line to replace the obsolescent Wartime destroyers. It was a Fleet, the Navy could not refrain from boasting, which was not only the most powerful ever...
...Normandie, world's largest ship, away from St. Nazaire where she was built, hardy Bretons have dredged out of the harbor a special channel six miles long, made more exciting by five unavoidably sharp curves. Last week the completed Normandie, drawing 40 ft. of water and with the French Line Chairman Marcel Olivier aboard, was shoved off by ten frantically churning tugs while Bretons, gathered from miles around, cheered and whooped in the rain. Hardly had the Normandie cleared the first buoy when driving mists shut her out of sight from shore. Most ticklish moment came when...
...Zion, Ill. a mechanic named Carl Swanson built a homemade plane of washing machine parts, baling wire, canvas, door hinges, equipped it with a motorcycle engine, took it up for a test-flight last week. Pilot Swanson had never had a flying lesson. The flight ended after three minutes. His condition: serious...
...will take 52 hr. - 6 hr. less than the old schedule. Regular basic fare is $24, plus $5 for a berth, upper or lower. Built by General Motors, the nitecoach has berths for 25 including five double-berths 47 in. wide, which cost $7. Single berths are 29 in. wide, 6 ft. long...