Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile Britain is organizing to meet the air threat. Her air armada-pursuit planes, fast Handley Page Hampden bombers-is rapidly being increased as her manufacturing program begins to hit a good stride. The Royal Air Force is equal in morale to the German, its older pilots have had longer training. The British Army's mechanized units (tanks, armored cars), although too few for war strength, are the most advanced in the world. And its officers-neither scholars like the French nor technicians like the Germans-are excellent leaders of men, if only rule-of-thumb strategists...
Dorothy Thompson wakes up at ten o'clock and reads furiously for two or three hours in bed. Along about noon she gets up, dresses fast, then dictates her column. She has three secretaries, named Madeleine, Madeline, and Madelon (she distinguishes them by their last names). One is always at the Herald Tribune answering mail and digging up research and one or two go to her apartment to help her while she works. Miss Thompson seldom goes to her office because the telephone never stops ringing...
...first born, he found it too big to go through the exit of his tiny shop. So, vowing he was through with locomotives, he cut a hole in the wall. But "Old Ironsides" surprised him, hit 28 miles an hour on the six-mile Philadelphia-Germantown run. That was fast enough to earn immortality as a locomotive pioneer. For Old Ironsides the end came in 1857 when a Vermont landslide mummified...
...nearly 7% on Midvale assets. Midvale's 1939 present to Baldwin is sure to be much handsomer; in the first five months of 1939, its backlog boomed more than 140% over last year while the combined backlog of all other Baldwin divisions rose only half as fast. The Navy allows Midvale up to 10% profit on contracts after figuring a generous 10-20% depreciation. This assures not only good profit but is enabling Midvale to keep its capacities modern, efficient...
...railroaders either. One night last week fog was thick on the Pennsylvania R.R.'s tracks near Bradford, Ohio. An eastbound freight stopped at Bradford for coal. Another train, following too closely behind, rammed into it, flinging wreckage onto the adjoining track. On that track a fast fruit train, hauled by two locomotives, was booming along with an all-clear signal. It butted into the debris; a half-mile of cars slithered off the rails like a wounded snake. Three crew men were killed, four more badly hurt. It was the worst freight wreck the Pennsylvania had had on that...