Word: carriere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Awarded. To Always Faithful, U. S. Army Signal Corps carrier pigeon: a gold medal and certificate of honor by the American Racing Pigeon Union; for flying the 715 mi. from Chattanooga, Tenn. to Fort Monmouth, N. J. at an average speed of 47 m.p.h., beating 1,114 competitors...
Specific Measures. The White Paper would lay down two new British capital ships and an aircraft carrier, launch five new cruisers, increase Navy personnel 6,000 by March 1937. It would raise four new battalions of British infantry, multiply the present Army's effectiveness several times by costly mechanization, modernize field artillery and anti-aircraft defense. It would increase the Royal Air Force from 1,750 to 2,150 planes, with more than a hint of going on to build up as fast as possible the world's most powerful air force...
Autocar's first catalog in 1898 listed a $450 "package carrier fitted with special gear, capacity 700 Ib. including driver." For the next few years Autocar was a popular passenger make, sporting a propeller shaft at a time when most cars were chain-driven. It pioneered the porcelain spark plug in the U. S., and its thread has since become standard for all spark plugs. In 1911 Autocar started to specialize on trucks, now makes models from 2%½ ton to 15½ ton capacity. An Autocar feature was long the under-the-seat motor, now being adopted...
...notable thing about Great Northern R. R.'s capitalization is the total absence of common stock.* Another is a $100,000,000 issue of bonds on which this conservative carrier has been paying 7% interest since the securities were offered in 1921. The bonds mature next summer and like the good manager he is. President William P. Kenney started months ago to lay plans for meeting them. It is the biggest railroad maturity of 1936. Mr. Kenney's 8,300-mile system has been a good client of the House of Morgan and George Fisher Baker...
Since Maurois has frequently been hailed as the carrier of the tradition of Lytton Strachey, his portrait of that biographer is the most revealing in Prophets and Poets. He quotes enough of Strachey's witty and unexpected prose to establish convincingly the difference between the master's light touch and his own methodical, hard-working style. The sketch ends with an account of Maurois' meeting with Strachey: "On the first day we were alarmed by his tall, lanky frame, his long beard, his immobility, his silence; but when he spoke ... it was in delightful, economical epigrams...