Word: field
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tunnels underground so that passengers could cross the field without danger of being run down...
...will be able to land on a field we cannot see. Fog flying is hazardous now, but I expect that within the next few years we will be able to fly through almost any kind of weather. So that conditions being somewhere near equal in regard to fog, I think distance from the city would be of primary importance...
Black, Starr & Frost-Gorham-Spaulding. Another merger following a merger was definitely announced in the jewelry field. Last March Manhattan's Black, Starr & Frost and Gorham Co. bought themselves a corporate wedding ring and decided to go down the path of business life together. Last week, however, this matrimonial metaphor became somewhat mixed when Spaulding & Co., Inc., joined the union. A holding company?Gorham, Inc.?was formed to handle the joint affairs of the three companies, each of which continued to operate its own establishment. Said Edmund C. Mayo, head of Gorham, Inc.: "U. S. prosperity has brought about...
...established a U. S. branch, Germany's I. G. Farbenindustrie last week strengthened its international position by adding the Swiss chemical industry to the European chemical cartel. For, though I. G. Dyes is not the entire German chemical industry, it does occupy a dominant position in its field, and growth of the cartel is reflected in prosperity at Frankfort. Prominence of Germany in the international chemical field is shown by the fact that cartel representatives, meeting in Paris, last week allotted 74% of the export trade to Germany, 17% to France and 8% to Switzerland. Sole check to cartel...
Graf Zeppelin. With Germany's minister to Austria (Count Hugo Lerchenfeld) and the Austrian Minister of Commerce (Dr. Hans Schürff) aboard, the Graf Zeppelin rose from its field at Friedrichshafen one morning at dawn and before 10 a. m. was flying over Vienna. School children in the streets sent up balloons with flags and flowers. Dr. Hugo Eckener sent down by radio a speech saying: "We crossed the frontier a few hours ago, but we do not feel ourselves in an alien land. We have the same tongue, the same Kultur, the same hopes. We will again come." Then...