Word: float
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sample of U. S. fighting craft. One important function to which the Corsair is specially adapted is catapulting from battleships and light cruisers, a maneuver in which the U. S. Navy has always surpassed foreign forces. A reason for U. S. superiority is its development of the single-float type of seaplane gear, as in the Corsair. Foreign seaplanes are usually of the twin-float type which, if strong enough to withstand the shock of catapulting, lacks speed and maneuverability in air. The Corsair shipped to Britain last week lacked the Navy's catapult attachments and had an outmoded...
...persuades they could never be happy together. He comes upon the girl he loves on the eve of her marriage; and after rendering her fiance sufficiently disgusting with a strong emetic, he snatches her away before she knows what is happening. Through the night, pant a burning airplane, they float down the river; and in the morning they find themselves out at sea, faced with the future together, and the problem of getting back...
...Whitaker Wright began to float companies devoted to ambiguous enterprises. By intermingling their affairs and complicating their books to the utmost, he was able to rob his investors fantastically. Shrewd businessmen who were directors of his London & Globe Co. believed in his infallibility as unquestioningly as did the associates of the late Ivar Kreuger and Samuel Insull. In 1903 London & Globe Co. crashed. Whitaker Wright was charged with issuing false balance sheets. So complicated was the financial maze he had built that no lawyer in England wanted the case. Rufus Isaacs agreed to prosecute it. For days he stood...
...enslavement. "The time for action is here when our government attempts to step in and forbid the manufacture and sale, unless we pay a tax, of the last and only joy-giving commodity that our country affords. "Let us not give up the ship as long as it will float. We must have some freedom left. Let us stand by and uphold and support the 'noble experiment,'-the 18th amendment-for through the adoption of that law. we have worked out among ourselves a substitute for bonded liquor that far excels in every degree and in every manner...
Still to be acted on by the Senate were other Wagner proposals to: 1) authorize the R. F. C. to lend a billion dollars for self-amortizing public works by States; 2) float a $500,000,000 U. S. bond issue for a Federal program of public works. President Hoover favored No. 1, frowned on No. 2. Last week Secretary Mills, appearing before the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, vainly argued for the Hoover proposal of R. F, C. loans to private industry. This the Committee rejected on the ground that it would result in unfair competition between industrial concerns financed...