Word: fourteen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Steel production last week was running at 33% of capacity against 64% in the same week last year. Iron Age indicated that July will probably mark the turning point in this important index. Pig-iron production during June dropped to the lowest level of any month since February 1922. Fourteen blast furnaces were blown out, leaving 91 in operation, the lowest number since December 1921. Steel ingot production for the first six months averaged 98,442 tons a day against 152.120 in the first half of 1930. United States Steel Corp. entered July with unfilled orders of 3.479,323 tons...
...Fourteen times has the North Atlantic been spanned nonstop by airplanes; the Pacific not once. Several flyers have reached Hawaii from the U. S.; Kingsford-Smith flew on from Hawaii to Suva and Australia. U. S. Army and Soviet flyers crossed Bering Sea, as did Post & Gatty a few weeks ago. But big money prizes offered for the first nonstop flight between U. S. and Japan have stayed uncollected after four tries in two years, chiefly because of the staggering fuel load needed for the 5,000-mi. route. Last week the fifth serious Tokyo trial got away from Seattle...
Those well started, he took $1,000,000 from one of his banks and called for more donations. Edward Stephen Harkness gave $1.000,000. Fourteen other less rich men each gave $100,000 or more. The whole community gave the rest?a total of $8.000,000. Result was the six new buildings dedicated last week?Lakeside Hospital, Leonard C. Hanna House (private hospital cases), and Mather, Harvey and Lowman Houses (nurses' dormitories...
...fourteen hundred and ninety...
...fourteen hundred and ninety...