Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Planes. At Seattle, Boeing airplanes are made; from Seattle, as from Pacific Coast ports as far south as Los Angeles, go McCormick P. A. B. ships to the Argentine & Brazil. Last week, Boeing planes were traveling on McCormick ships. The planes, it is planned, will fly from ships to distant inland towns of South America-carrying salesmen & goods...
...assist in defending distant French colonial possessions, such as Indo-China, there was launched last week at Cherbourg the super-submarine, Redoutable...
Young sales managers with bright ideas searched through books on mythology for an international trade-mark intelligible to all nations in all languages, for Vacuum oil lubricating supply stations were dotting the earth, even to imperceptible islands of distant seas. The bright young men hit on the roc, huge bird that took Sindbad's baggy pants in its beak and carried him across mountains to drop him into a gully full of diamonds. But here a language difficulty arose. Roc sounds like rock. In German petroleum is rock-oil (Steinöl). Most unfortunately the bird of Persian mythology...
...state that Mr. Robert E. Wood, recently elected President of Sears, Roebuck & Co. is a brother-in-law of Senator Thomas Hardwick of Georgia (TIME, Jan. 23). This is not correct for Senator Hardwick is a very distant cousin of Mr. Wood's wife...
...quickly assumed that his wife, who had battled her way to the top of London society, would now top the tenth largest steel company in the U. S. Would Cleveland furnaces roar to dine London Dukes? Would laboring thousands depend for jobs upon a distant lady's whim? Truth might again be stranger than the cinema, especially in a company with such a cinematic history...