Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attended to, something had to be done about the gold standard. Ever since the U. S. Government increased the price of gold, the Phi Beta Kappa Society had been losing money hand over fist on its gold Key, whose cost remained unchanged, although its gold content was reduced. To cover this deficit, and also incidentally to pay for an intellectual freedom campaign on the side, the Society was found to be in need of $300,000. And while the world felt itself rolling nearer and nearer the edge of eternity, the Phi Beta Kappa Society again was forced to admit...
...Cover...
Less pleased were Mr. Cover and his boss, President Donald Wills Douglas, with the sales potentialities of DC-5's big, four-motored brother DC-4, now completed at a reputed development cost...
When weatherbeaten Carl Cover, Doug las vice president and boss test pilot, "poured the coal" to the DC-5's two 750-horsepower Pratt & Whitney Hornets, the new ship, designed primarily for operation out of short fields on feeder lines, whipped off the field like a barnstormer's pasture-hopper. In the air it showed a high speed of 248 miles an hour, a cruising speed of 203, far better than the conservative Douglas performance estimates. Pleased was Pilot Cover (who is in charge of sales) with other features of the ship; with no wing below them passengers...