Word: developers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...given the ball and ran Army plays and principally West Point pass plays against the A squad for the better part of half an hour following the tackling drill. Principally a stationary scrimmage, the drill brought out the fact that the secondary is diagnosing the passes before they develop much better than they have in the two games played thus...
...plant bananas at about the time people started eating them in the U. S. He finished that rail road, built others, on banana money. In 1899 he merged his railroads and plantations with Andrew W. Preston's Boston Fruit Co. to form United Fruit, then went north to develop International Railways in Guatemala. United Fruit invested $10,000,000 in the railroad...
First readable giro is to be sold to the Bureau of Air Commerce for $12,500. It cost some $80,000 to develop. Eventually, Autogiro Co. of America expects to start mass production, bring the price down toward that of a good automobile. Firm conviction is that the combination of jump take-off and roadability is the only way to end private flying's present prime inconvenience: getting to and from a landing place...
...cannot develop the unifying educational forces we so sorely need unless all matters may be openly discussed. The origin of the Constitution, for example, the functioning of the three branches of the Federal Government, the forces of modern capitalism, must be dissected as fearlessly as the geologist examines the origin of the rocks. On this point there can be no compromise...
...Irish and half-French, utter realist yet the servant of a self-deceiving love, Scarlett O'Hara is unique in American fiction. Other characters are good and bad; the minor figures are not sketched with that conciseness and surety which mark the mature artist. Miss Mitchell needs space to develop either a character or a bit of action, and she very wisely, I think, does not hesitate to take that space where it is important. Rhelt Butler is one on whom she lavishes enough care to make him live. A cynicvillain who is undeluded by the sanctity for the Southern...