Word: floats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Housing also became Mr. Moffett's immediate personal problem. He brought his 124-ft. yacht Bidou to Washington to live in. The District of Columbia has piers, at which yachts may be tied up, but the channels need dredging. The only pier with enough water to float Bidou was already rented for $30 per month to John Hays Hammond Jr. for his Ripple. Hence Mr. Moffett had to anchor Bidou out in the Potomac where he could not even have the convenience of a telephone...
...buildings did not cumber the earth. Take, for instance, the Daily News Building and the Tribune Tower in Chicago. In both instances the passerby gets the effect that the structure is poised upon one toe and eager to float or fly. . . . Hood could do you a skyscraper which was ready for a fight or frolic...
...eight outstanding Methodist Episcopal issues, totaling $5,000,000, are currently in default. The one which pains him most is that of the California Missionary Society. To help pay for a Methodist Hospital in Los Angeles, the Society in booming 1928 had Bitting & Co. float a $600,000 bond issue. In 1931 the Society paid off $55,000 of the principal, in 1933 made one interest payment. Not one other cent has it paid. By July 1, 1934 it had defaulted $67,000 principal, $59,950 interest...
...Skillfully he darted from cloud to cloud, hitchhiking on thermal currents. Over the rugged Alleghanies he soared in silence, flew south along the Susquehanna River. Over Scranton he ran out of clouds; dropped to 500 ft. Hot air over the city pushed him up again, enabled him to float serenely through the Delaware Water Gap. With the skyscrapers of Manhattan just visible in the distance, he ran out of clouds again, dropped to 200 ft. over the flat Jersey countryside, was forced to land at an airport in Basking Ridge.* He had missed his father's prize money...
...predicts a repetition of the events of 1914, with the U S. caught between blockading and blockaded powers in the Atlantic. In tl Pacific Japan will use force to stop tl flow of U. S. supplies to Soviet Russia via China. Author Lothrop Stoddard's anti-War prescription: float no foreign bonds of combatants in the U. S.; trade with combatants for cash or short-term credits; export no arms or munitions. - ED. Haul Sirs...