Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Merchant Marine is a service proposition"). Overseas air lines, over which the Commission asked jurisdiction, may cut sharply into the superliner traffic. "The American contribution to North Atlantic travel should be fireproof, vibrationless, attractive and economical vessels of reasonable size and speed, distinguished by the utmost in safety and comfort . . . available for National defense. . . ." For the rest, the U. S. should build fairly standardized combination freight & passenger types. However, the Commission's first proposed type-the so-called C-2 carrying 7,000 tons of freight, twelve passengers and a crew of 46-has met practical objections from shipowners...
Professor Arthur E. Kennelly, Emeritus, while actively engaged in this department, gained world-wide recognition for his work on electrical units and electrical wave propagation; Professor Comfort A. Adams, Emeritus, contributed greatly to our knowledge of electrical machines; and Dean Harry E. Clifford, Emeritus, formerly Dean of the Graduate School of Engineering, was recognized for his work as an educator and editor in addition to his engineering achievements...
...common sense and Bureau of Air Commerce rulings all big three transcontinental airlines (United, American and TWA) share much alike in safety measures, leaving competition to comfort, equipment and fares. Claiming to be first on such things as coast-to-coast passenger service, transcontinental overnight service, and general deluxing, TWA last year turned its attention to fares, reduced them about 15%. So loud and prolonged was the outcry from United and American that after six months the three compromised on a middle rate between the new low and the old high-well justifying TWA's snort that "whatever...
...doctor was a great comfort to me when she died. Whenever my courage faltered, or got tired of holding the chloroform bottle, he was always there with a word of encouragement or advice, always helpful, always a perfect gentleman...
...hardworking, socialite Arthur Menken-son of famed and dressy Manhattan matron Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken-in a chatty letter received by his Manhattan chiefs last week: "The first few bombs went wide of the mark, splashing into ponds between the power house and the hotel, too close for comfort but . . . very nice for pictures. The following planes came in with greater accuracy and dropped three eggs directly on the structure itself. . . . During this attack . . . the Chinese anti-aircraft with, I believe, .50 calibre machine guns brought down a plane directly in front of the building. It was impossible...