Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They are equipped with luxurious trappings, hot and cold running water, sleeping compartments, radio sets, spacious windows. The 90-foot wing spread will lift, beside fuel and passengers, 1,000 pounds of baggage. The three Wright Cyclone motors will propel this load at an average 130 m. p. h. for four and one-half hours, could if necessary attain 155 m. p. h., climb 16,100 feet. Edgar M. Gott, president of the Keystone Aircraft Corp., has for the last two months kept the construction of these monsters a secret...
...smell of fish, fowl, game, plants, men, sea water and crude oil steamed into Sydney, Nova Scotia, last week; took on a supply of fuel oil and at once left for Wiscasset, Me., its home port. It was the Bowdoin, Arctic exploration ship of Commander Donald B. MacMillan. His months of collecting showed that many specimens of plant and animal life existed farther north than scientists heretofore have realized. Commander MacMillan shut off from world news so long, was most eager to hear about trans-atlantic airplane flights...
...books were that the number of pupil hours during 1927 was nearly 1,000,000,000; that the estimated total cost of running schools in 1929 was $131,700,680,89, that the rental of burglar alarms next year would come to $3,691 and that repairs to fuel scales would cost...
...purely nominal values, a few dollars a share. Both owners and strikers had rejected arbitration, had agreed without hope to allow the State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation to '"investigate." So far as New Bedford could see, the strike might last until winter. If the strikers could find fuel, it might last until another summer, indefinitely...
Coal. Isaac T. Mann, president of the Pocahontas Fuel Co., reported that agreement was being reached among some 80 soft coal operators in Virginia and West Virginia for the consummation of a $200,000,000 merger...