Word: demolishment
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...region, far north in the Arctic. Wellknown Arctic explorers declare that it takes about 100 years or more for these huge masses to form in the glacier fields, and it is because these bergs are so solidly formed in rock-like strata that it is so difficult to demolish them. It takes the bergs about one year to drift down from Baffin Bay to the Northern area of the Banks. Their length at this time averages about five city blocks, while their height runs from 200 to 300 feet. It was calculated that there are usually some 100,000 tons...
...manufacturer. Our thought has always been that the automobile business is prosperous only when all the makers of good cars are busy." But Chevrolet motors, manufactured under the direction of a onetime Ford executive, William Knudsen, have been hitting near enough to the low-priced market for automobiles to demolish almost half the target aimed at by the Ford Motors Co. In 1924 Ford scored 2,083,545 sales to Chevrolet's 587,341. By 1926 that score was changed to read Ford, 1,810,000; Chevrolet, 1,234,850. This year in the first six months, it reads...
...fall disentangles himself from his battered machine, forced down behind the enemy lines. He steals an enemy plane, wings his way toward his own camp. Meanwhile, his true friend, John Powell (Charles Rogers), hearing that Bruce has been shot down by the Germans, sallies forth, Achilles-like, to demolish Germania for its destruction of his Patroclus. His sputtering machine-gun bespeaks grim, relentless rage. Prussian planes careen downward, leaving swift trails of smoke. Sausage-shaped dirigibles collapse in flames, Armstrong in the German plane flies joyously toward his heroic friend but is not recognized. With volleys of oaths bursting from...
...Mongolian, he carries her off to the most devilish abyss in old Chinatown, "the inner circle of the mile of hell." There, on the point of worse than death, it occurs to her to repeat the Lord's Prayer. In answer, God sends the earthquake of 1906 to demolish the villain...
...fact that the Ford and Dodge Companies are using steel bodies. He declared that just as the old wooden Pullman cars have been discarded, so wooden automobile bodies will in a few years be obsolete. Said he: "It's the splinters that kill. . . . Steel laughs at shocks that demolish wood. . . . Smaller, lighter, more economical, better looking, longer lasting motor cars are coming...