Word: cuing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great airdock at Lakehurst, idle since the Akron and Macon disasters. To permit the vast Hindenburg to fit the Lakehurst hangar, Dr. Eckener removed two ribs, thus shortened her seven feet. Even so, she is 803 ft. long, 135 ft. high, holds some 7,000,000 cu. ft. of hydrogen, has nearly twice the bulk of the old Graf Zeppelin...
...marble, bronze and granite. Secretary Roswell M. Austin of the Memorial Extension Commission announced that 1935 was the biggest year for the tombstone industry since Depression, that the average price of tombstones had risen from a Depression low of $350 to nearly $500. The industry sold 2,734,000 cu. ft. of granite and marble in 1935. Possibly because things looked so bright for the tombstone trade, last week's convention talked little about business, a lot about art. Dealers and salesmen were driven to cemeteries, taken on a tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shown tombstone...
Thickly frosted in the frigid air of Moonlight Valley, S. Dak., start of the two previous failures, the great rubbery bag grew like a mushroom in the night as 300 soldiers labored beneath floodlights to pump in 300,000 cu. ft. of helium. By dawn all was ready. The balloonists climbed aboard, shouted: "Up, balloon!" Released, it floated gently away, cleared the rim of the woodsy valley, drifted out of sight as the 20,000 chilled spectators trekked back to Rapid City. Six hours later, Capt. Stevens radioed that Explorer II had touched 74,000 ft., well above both...
Suddenly the top of the bag pimpled, popped. An instant later the whole crown split open, and 350,000 cu. ft. of helium roared out. An Army sergeant on the gondola understood the crisis first, frantically yelled, "Run! Run! She's busted!" Before any of the 20 men under the bag could do so, they were flattened by nearly three acres of billowing, stifling cloth...
...task to borrow money from reluctant bankers ... to labor with Congressional committees in the formulation of financial legislation; to devise remedial measures for a deranged cu rency; to make forecasts and prepare estimates in days when financial responsibility was diffused ... to trim the sails of fiscal policy to political winds; to market the huge loans which constituted the chief reliance of an improvident Gov ernment." For all the years between them those words about Secretary Chase may well have a familiar ring to Secretary Morgenthau...