Word: feeder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Jack Frye, worried about his growing waistline, announced a deal that will fatten his airline: the purchase for $350,000 of Marquette Airlines which (when Civil Aeronautics Authority approves) will give TWA a closely knit 565-mile feeder system in the heart of rich midwest traffic territory...
When weatherbeaten Carl Cover, Doug las vice president and boss test pilot, "poured the coal" to the DC-5's two 750-horsepower Pratt & Whitney Hornets, the new ship, designed primarily for operation out of short fields on feeder lines, whipped off the field like a barnstormer's pasture-hopper. In the air it showed a high speed of 248 miles an hour, a cruising speed of 203, far better than the conservative Douglas performance estimates. Pleased was Pilot Cover (who is in charge of sales) with other features of the ship; with no wing below them passengers...
Emphasizing the position of the Law School as a "feeder for the public service," Dean Landis in his annual report yesterday revealed plans under consideration by the faculty to integrate the study of Law with other branches of knowledge...
...feet of silt, 75 feet below the Hudson's surface. It is just over 1½ miles long, ceilinged in glass tile, employed 1,300 WPA workers at an average $1 per hour, is fitted on the Manhattan side with approaches which fan into half-a-dozen little feeder streets. Authorized fortnight ago was construction of a cross-town vehicular tunnel which will connect the Lincoln Tunnel to the abuilding Queens Midtown Tunnel, another pair of tubes under the East River to the Borough of Queens. These additional arteries will channel through traffic from Long Island to New Jersey...
...Flash" Gordon and George Clark have been high-scoring at the forward positions, and Roger Pierce and Max Manker have held down the guard berths capably. Harold Curtiss has shown himself a capable pass feeder from his center spot. William Calfee, Hamlin Williston, Harris Squibb, and Eric Witherby have also played in the two Adams games...