Word: drifts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Capt. Bartlett deprecated airplanes and dirigibles: "They can't dredge, can't take samples of water." He estimated that his freeze-and-drift project would cost $300,000. Purposes: study of magnetic & meteorological conditions, currents, water temperatures; mapmaking; procuring weather data...
...seriously considered doing likewise in the U. S. Making such gas at the coal mines and distributing it by long pipes should be cheaper than shipping coal to homes and factories. Also, the convenience of such gas will enable small communities to have factories, will prevent the present rural drift to cities...
...oldest and the noblest of all. We are proud of the fact that our career is one that deals with the building of men. In the army, men are taken from all parts of the country, from all walks of life. They come largely from the drift, mostly in the raw. From this material of flesh and blood, we build an organization that must be, at all times, prepared to defend our country. Watching a group of green recruits grow in our hands into a smoothly-working organization which will in time of need be the mainstay of the defence...
...engineers, financiers, is making a study of U. S. mergers of the past few years and is hard put keeping track of the multitude of new ones always forming. The years 1927 and 1928 will probably go into financial history as the real beginning of the vast industrial-financial drift now going...
...Gulf Stream, swiftest moving and best studied of ocean currents, however, loses comparatively little of its heat at Newfoundland. It drifts eastward to help warm all of Europe, including of course England.* Europe is warmer than North America. Off Europe the Gulf Stream Drift splits into three streams. One goes between the Faeroe and Shetland Islands north of Scotland, another along west Iceland, the third along the western side of Greenland...