Word: falling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...club plane immediately, the flying season will be resumed for the spring months, according to an announcement made last night by R. B. Bell '30, president of the organization. The task of reconditioning the club Travel-air, which has been in the Gordon McKay Laboratory since flying ceased last fall, will take about one month. All the work will be done by the members of the club and the plane is expected to be ready for service by March...
...Were startled by an astounding ambiguity let fall when the Prime Minister was intimating to the House that he favors the building of a railway tunnel under the British Channel (see International). The purport of easy-going Mr. Baldwin's care less remark was, in effect, that he would not be surprised if the forthcoming general election should sweep his party (Conservative) out of their present absolute majority control of Parliament. Said the Prime Minister: "In view of the time required to carry the project through all stages to the completion of the tunnel, the Government is convinced that...
Earlier in the week Viscount Rothermere, England's most potent newspaper tycoon, once Conservative, now Liberal, blatantly and confidently predicted in his Daily Mail the fall of the Conservative Government...
Touring the Great Lakes last Fall in a Mathews cruiser, Mr. Wolfe noticed the large popular interest in motor boating and reflected that a standardized motor boat, built on a mass-production motor car basis, could be sold at a price within the reach of the moderately well-to-do. From this idea, with amazing rapidity, resulted the Meteor Runabout, a 27-footer which seats ten persons, makes 30 m. p. h. and sells...
Professor Taussig stressed the point that the facts and statistics, gained through the questionnaires returned, would make possible a more definite conclusion on the problems of social stratification than has ever been made before. The research was started last fall and Professor Taussig estimates that it will be several months before the exact conclusions will be known due to the diverse nature of the replies received from business men. It is possible that tardy returns of questionnaires may swell the total considerably beyond its present sum. Professor Taussig and Mr. Joslyn have been aided in the present survey...