Word: compact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Simmering on the financial stove last week was one of the biggest airline mergers in U.S. aviation history: sprawling, 16-year-old Northwest Airlines and fledgling, compact Mid-Continent Airlines. As a single unit the two lines would have 22,000 daily flight miles radiating from Minneapolis-St. Paul (giant American Airlines has over 90,000 miles), a man-sized fleet of big transport planes and more than 5,000 employes. Besides, it would have a strategic "X" route-major lines running north-south and eastwest...
Little new or revealing evidence of those ten tense years is placed before the observer; the events appear in much the same light that illumined them in 1932 or '33. The Japanese betrayal of the Kellogg-Brian compact began the downhill course. Following the Manchurian invasion, Secretary Stimson foresaw repetition of the same form of lawlessness, and American policy began to take shape. By protest and testimonial, American, and later, allied statesmen have been excoriating totalitarian aggression ever since. The rise of Hitler brought warnings from Washington, the invasion of Ethiopia drew pleas for "resumption of international responsibility...
...Rewards. Last week Art Tilt was a happy man-his company was going great guns, an Army-Navy E flag floated over his neat, compact factory, his employes had just surprised their tough-guy boss with a gold trophy and a diamond-studded pin to show their "friendship and esteem [in] recognition of 38 years of continuous leadership unmarred by labor strife or serious dispute." Chicagoans chuckled, too, over the latest story of the famed Tilt temper. In a purple rage because his Packard was hard to start one cold Sunday morning, Art jumped out of the car, grabbed...
...main objective of the compulsory athletic program is physical conditioning and the benefits of marching in gaining this effect are only fractional. And with student time becoming more and more of a problem, compact, half-hour exercise periods seem to be the ideal solution...
About the size of a suitcase, weighing 128 lb., the compact device is already in use for testing all types of planes from single-seater fighters to B-19s. A recorder costs $2,000 (Glenn Martin paid for one in a week with money saved in life-insurance premiums for the three observers usually carried on heavy bomber test flights). But the supply of recorders is still limited...