Word: gears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soil, most of them were in overalls or shirt sleeves. Theirs, they needed no realist to tell them, was a hopeless gesture against the two major parties but at least it was a gesture springing from strong political convictions that U. S. economics are today sadly out of gear...
...couple of immigrants going home." Few days after the "immigrants" start, beauteous Socialite Ruth Nichols followed in her fast Lockheed. Forced to land into the setting sun at the St. John airport and partially blinded by the glare. Miss Nichols overshot the field, nosed over, badly damaged the landing gear of her plane, escaped serious injury. But flyers and their fates held scant concern for St. John that day. For in the forenoon fire broke out on the town's busy waterfront, swept through blocks of piers and grain elevators, destroyed the Canadian Pacific steamer Empress and several harbor craft...
...college. Its students (3,938 enrolled this year) have since 1921 been obliged to pay a stiff tuition fee: from $85 to $130 per quarter, depending upon the school in which they are enrolled. Though it is their custom to affect corduroy trousers, lumberjack shirts and other unassuming gear, more than half own automobiles. Some fly their own planes: Stanford's airport, operated by the Daniel Guggenheim Aeronautic Laboratory, is one of the few college-owned fields in the U. S. and it is taxed to its capacity on big-game days. Nearby is the stadium which seats...
...Rapidan camp President Hoover last week took his tall, angular friend Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, and eight Wilbur assistants. Their purpose: to devise Interior economies to help reduce the prospective billion-dollar budget. When the executives came down the mountainside (their cars in low gear because of mud), a plan had been worked out whereby $4,000,000 would be snipped out of Interior expenditures this year, $6,000,000 next year, $8,000,000 the year after. Added to the War Department pruning planned the previous week-end (see p. 19), the Interior cut will...
...Lockheed Orion, a seven-passenger cabin plane with low wing and retractable landing gear, designed to fly 220 m. p. h., first of a fleet to be operated on Bowen air lines between Washington and Dallas...