Word: craft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once there were 88 U. S. motor car manufacturers. Now there are 47. Mishaps and mergers reduced the number. Analogous has been the career of the aviation industry during the rapid past three years of its expansion. There are about 350 makers of airplanes, five of lighter-than-air craft, 30 of motors. Those concerns too have had their mishaps and mergers, especially mergers. The majority of them now belong to what until last week were four groups?United Aircraft & Transport, Aviation Corp., Curtiss-Keys, and "Hoyt." Last week the Curtiss and "Hoyt" groups merged...
...Border. On the claim that 85% of Canadian liquor entering the U. S. is run across the Detroit River, Assistant- Secretary of the Treasury Lowman tightened his blockade along that mile-wide stream until it fairly bristled with Dry and Wet armament. Pleasure craft traversed it at their own peril. The roughest, tough- est gangster element alone stayed in the rum racket to battle...
...aviation?Charles Augustus Lindbergh. With Mrs. Lindbergh he had returned in his motor cruiser Mouette from honeymooning off the New England coast to the estate of Daniel Guggenheim, Fund creator, and was ready for work. He first flew Harry F. Guggenheim for 15 minutes in the Brunner-Winkle craft. Then he took Mrs. Lindbergh up for a ride in a Curtiss Falcon...
...companions, loaded 35 cases of Canadian liquor for which they paid $1,258, into their speed boat and started across. At the mouth of the River Rouge a Customs boat gave chase. Ten cases were jettisoned without widening the gap between the two boats. The rum-runners beached their craft, took to their heels. Customs Inspector Jonah Cox landed, stood guard over the liquor while his comrade went back to headquarters for assistance. Eugster & friends came back. A fight started. Eugster was shot by Cox, died the next clay. The U. S. quickly exonerated Cox for a killing "in line...
...only a writer and interpreter but also a molder, a creator of news. He is heir to the dream of the late, great Victor Fremont Lawson, builder of the Chicago Daily News, who 30 years ago conceived a worldwide foreign service which was to be "the handmaiden of state craft." Men who worked abroad for Journalist Lawson had to be diplomatists as well as reporters. They were to aid in interpreting countries one to the other, for to Journalist Lawson all nations needed only to be known to be beloved. Properly to interpret a nation it might be necessary sometimes...