Word: fours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...July, 1927, a little Wright Apache plane with Lieut. C. C. Champion, U. S. N., at the stick, soared into the air and circled upward, ever upward, one mile, two miles, three, four, five, six, seven miles. Another 1,000 ft. he climbed into the rarefied air. At 38,418 ft. above sea level, seven cylinder-heads burst from his engine, the life-giving oxygen tube was torn from his lips, one barograph (altitude recorder) was blown to bits, his plane caught fire. All but unconscious from lack of air, like Icarus he plunged down from his eminence...
...taxied 25 yards and his machine took the air. Beginning to climb at an angle of 30 degrees, he went upward at the rate of 3,000 ft. per minute. In four minutes he had climbed two miles. He took a sniff of his oxygen to keep his head clear. The climb became only 2,000 feet a minute. He climbed three, four, five, six miles. The engine began to slow down for lack of air. He turned on the super charger to increase air pressure in the carburetor...
Playwright Finsterwald is in her early twenties, a native Detroiter. Last year she was graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, where, studying dramatics, she won an Otto Hermann Kahn prize for a four-act play called Giants and Chains...
...publishers, young men both, were William LaVarre, former circulation promoter of the New York Times and New York World, and Harold Hall, former business manager of the New York Telegram. They told of purchasing four papers: the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, the Columbia (S. C.) Record, the Spartanburg (S. C.) Herald and Journal. All purchases were for cash and the entire sum, $870,000, was supplied by International Paper & Power Co. In exchange they gave their notes which were secured by the stock of the newspapers as collateral, although the actual certificates were not turned over. In no case did they...
...Federal Trade Commission also planned to call two more publishers, two more paper tycoons. The publishers are: Frank Ernest Gannett, owner of 17 chain-papers, who distinguished himself a fortnight ago, not by announcing that International Paper & Power Co. had bought stock in four of his papers, but by announcing that he had bought back such stock from I. P. & P. (TIME, May 13): and Samuel Emory Thomason, co-owner of Bryan-Thomason Newspaper Publishers, Inc. (Chicago Journal, Greensboro, N. C., Record, Tampa, Fla., Tribune) in which are one million Graustein dollars...