Word: dill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before him. He built a weird craft embodying the idea in 1926 and flew it at Clover Field, Los Angeles. Again in the National Air Races of 1928 he demonstrated another, built by his students of California Institute of Technology. It performed well but was impractical, was dubbed "the dill pickle" for its color and general conformation. Thereafter he obtained the financial backing of Hannibal C. Ford, president of Ford Instrument Co. Inc., a subsidiary of North American Aviation, Inc., which gave rise to the present development and the formation of Merrill Aircraft Co. Also associated with him are Thomas...
...regret that the confidence I hoped the country would have in the new Commission should be so early and so rudely disturbed." At once an insurgent Senate movement was on foot to reconsider the confirmation of the three Power Commissioners when Congress reassembles next week.* Senators Borah, Norris, Brookhart, Dill and Wheeler, promising support to Senator Walsh, clamored to have the question reopened. A report spread that Chairman Smith and his two Commissioners, to avert a Senate explosion which might blow them out of their new jobs, were considering rehiring Messrs. Russell & King. Commissioner McNinch, not yet in office, wired...
...Fraser Metzger of Rutgers University ("Dr. Butler's position . . . is well founded"); President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth ("Certainly worth considering"); President Thomas Sovereign Gates of University of Pennsylvania ("Sympathetic consideration"); President Frank Aydelotte of Swarthmore ("Evils of academic sports . . . come really from the spectators"); President Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern ("Fine idea . . . but I do not believe that the endowment will be forthcoming"); President James Lukens McConaughy of Wesleyan University ("Proposals . . . must have general consideration"). But no enthusiasm: for Dr. Butler's scheme had Athletic Director Fielding Harris Yost of University of Michigan ("No possible value"); Coach...
...water power. Its dissatisfaction with the present policy was chiefly responsible for recent legislation reorganizing and jacking up the Federal Power Commission. All power witnesses before it are suspected at the outset and the inquisitorial questions of such Senators as Nebraska's Howell, Iowa's Brookhart, Washington's Dill, Montana's Wheeler, New York's Wagner and Kentucky's Barkley seem designed to elicit testimony to discredit the present system of utility regulation. Despite the fact that service with a power company might well constitute good training for a power regulator, no such connection ever seems too small...
...snuff industry is dominated by three great companies. There is U. S. Tobacco Co. whose brand is famed Copenhagen. Last year this company earned $2,771,000, but the figure was swelled by returns from smoking tobacco including Old Briar, Dill's Best. There is George W. Helme Co. whose snuff earnings last year were $2,324,000. And there is American Snuff Co. with 1929 earnings of $2,109,000. Its leading brands are Garrett, Honest, Dental. American Snuff was formed in 1900, marched hand-in-hand with American Tobacco until 1911 when anti-trust action ordered...