Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midnight last week attendants at Miami municipal airport smelled smoke, then saw it streaming from the field's big hangar. Before Miami's fire department could get into action the hangar was a furnace, airplane gas tanks began to pop. Soon the red-hot roof fell. When dawn broke, a cloud of smoke a mile in diameter covered a heap of debris, the charred skeletons of 22 private planes valued at $508,000. Among them were an Autogiro, taxiplane and big machines belonging to Gar Wood, James Mattern, Alexander P. de Seversky...
Biology. Colin Campbell Sanborn, curator of mammals in Chicago's Field Museum-to prepare "a taxonomic revision of six families of bats...
...permit regulation of the Western Electric Co. by the FCC as a public utility"; 3) to "fix temporary rates whenever it appears that the return on net book cost is excessive"; 4) "to regulate Bell System financing"; 5) "to limit the scope of Bell System activities to the communications field" (Bell System at various times has been involved in radio, cinema, artificial larynges, photoelectric eyes...
...rejuvenated Fierce-Arrow Motor Corp. Basis for this talk, which Jim Farley never denied, was a Fierce-Arrow reorganization plan proposed last August and approved by stockholders in September, under which the company would raise $10,700,000 through sale of new stock and enter the medium-priced automotive field under the guidance of "a person of national importance." Last week it looked as though Jim Farley had been saved for the Cabinet, for Fierce-Arrow trustees and creditors sadly obtained from a Buffalo court an order for the company to show cause why it should not be declared insolvent...
Railroad presidents who sigh when they think of the magnificent open-field technique of Vanderbilt, Harriman, Gould and Hill, sighed again last week when Leonor Fresnel Loree, on the point of turning 80. resigned as president of Delaware & Hudson Co. Mr. Loree has a beard and a ferocious scowl. But despite his age and looks, he was always only on the fringes of the swashbuckling, end-of-the-century railroad men who ran railroads, the stock-market and a few States. He was a Harriman man, less of a giant than a tall man with aspirations...