Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there were indeed cases where small earnings instead of deficits made good news. Reports issued up to last week for the most part showed losses from last year. The public utilities came the closest to maintaining their 1930 earning power, while the rails continued to show an alarming drop in gross and net, in many cases falling short of covering fixed charges. Most industrials showed big declines but companies which have made good showings this year include...
...Tokyo War Minister General Minami said that Japan has "no bombing planes" in Manchuria, explained that from "scout planes" Japanese airmen drop "not bombs but three-inch shells" which nevertheless explode. Continuing these technicalities, Japanese Ambassador Debuchi announced in Washington that Japan has withdrawn "all fighting planes" from Manchuria...
...After bombing Chinchow, field headquarters of the ousted Chinese Governor of Manchuria, Chang Hsueh-liang (TIME, Sept. 28), Japanese planes swooped low to drop explanatory handbills. Text...
More Years. Dr. Charles Horace Mayo, his eyebrows bristling, flayed frantic oldsters: "The radios of young people are tuned to rhythmic motion. Those of old people get mainly static. There are too many 'drop-deads.' The 'drop-deads' occur in the city. They may die on the golf links, trying to show they are all right, but they really occur in the city. Farmers haven't the time to drop dead. We overdo the subject of exercise unless we have had the advantage of training early in life. Unless you have been brought up to work in early life...
...chute cannot be built big enough to support a heavily loaded transport. Instead, it became known last week, they are developing a combination of 'chute and detachable cabin. The 'chute jerks the cabin, intact with passengers, free of the fuselage of the disabled plane and lets it drop slowly. The pilot jumps from the cockpit (forward of the cabin) with his own 'chute while the remainder of the ship crashes. At Wright Field (Dayton, Ohio) the plan is being tested with a glider carried aloft by an Army combat plane...