Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kongsgaard relaxed as he picked up speed ("When the wind starts to bite, I am free from tension"), gave a strong kick as he reached the takeoff. A few seconds later the crowd let out a roar. His 290-ft. jump was 60.96 feet short of the world mark, but it had set a new U.S. (and North American) record, breaking the old one of 289 feet set by his late countryman, Torger Tokle* at Iron Mountain, Mich, seven years...
...band, the Bobby True Trio, but when the main event came on they howled with delight. And when 35-year-old, toupee-topped Crooner Frankie Laine finally let them have what they wanted -his bobbing, bouncing Rosetta and By the River Sainte Marie-they were on their feet...
Stewart's tubelike conveyor would run on trestles 22 feet above the ground, with "transfer points" (see cut) to shift the coal and iron up & down elevations in the land. Inside the tube would be two belts, one carrying coal north from the coal-mining towns along the Ohio River, the other carrying ore south from lake freighters to the steel mills. There would be enough room in between the belts for workers to tend the machinery. In this way Stewart hoped to move 29 million tons of coal, 30 million tons of iron ore and 3 million tons...
Bank Teller Robert Gibson, an ex-B-29 pilot, was at the lower end of the snorkel, twelve feet down in a cashier's cage beneath the sidewalk. By means of a periscope and a loudspeaker running up through the steel box, he could see and talk with customers at the curb. They could also see him in a periscope mirror in the box and talk back. By dropping their bank books and deposits into an electric dumbwaiter, customers could do their banking in one minute without leaving their cars...
Hopefully, the government pushed its )ill to set up a Film Finance Corporation with $20 million to help the ailing industry back on its feet over the next five years. But nobody in the industry thought hat the government fund could work a cure by itself; they hoped it would lure private capital back into the films. And he most enlightened knew that in any event the bankers would first want the moviemakers to mend their extravagant ways...