Word: compassion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Department of Commerce. Once the Department was ignored or avoided by business men. It was too " theoretical." What value it had was scientific rather than commercial. Now the Department serves the business man with cable information from every point of the compass, from a chemical expert in Germany, a machinery expert in China, an agricultural expert in Argentina. And it serves them with statistics...
...whole night (between Indianapolis and Tucumcari gravestones in New Mexico) they flew with a compass as their sole guide. Crossing Arizona in the morning and flying low to get their bearings anew, they piloted their Fokker T-2 in a country of forests, ravines and canyons, treacherous air currents, and at one point flew most dangerously between the walls of a deep canyon. Yet they pronounced their flight " humdrum," and landed in perfect condition-except for hearing slightly affected by the continuous roar of the motor...
...card is reported to have been found on board one of the United States Shipping Board steamers by German workers while repairing a compass...
...editor says that many Republicans, like him, will vote for Democrat McAdoo, and by so doing will compass the defeat of Mr. Harding...
...hour which they were forced to maintain put a strain on the motor which accmed suicidal. And it was necessary to travel through darkness, high above the clouds where charts both of land and of air were almost useless. In these strange air lanes they relied on the compass, the guide of every explorer in uncharted regions...