Word: giant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well did Mrs. Hoover know that the voice was that of her son Herbert, radio engineer, describing over a nation-wide hook-up the Army's final air maneuvers above San Francisco from a giant Fokker...
African copper has been rapidly changing from a shadowy threat to a solid giant looming on the horizon. In 1916 the copper mines of Africa yielded 43,876 tons mined at high cost by inefficient natives. By 1923 the figure had risen to 80,410 short tons. Last year's production is estimated to have reached 142,599 tons. During this time modern machinery has supplanted hand labor to a great extent, railroads have been built. Now for the first time, African copper is a subject in all conversations regarding the metal's future...
Avco's stockholders, when they meet next week at Wilmington, will understand that the commissioning of Engineer Coburn does not signify sickness but progress in the corporation. He is not only to adjust but to amplify Avco's manufacturing. Plans include new giant seaplanes, a new line of motors...
...temporary hospital was thrown up which was the beginning of the world famed "Clinic City." Probably the only city of its type in the world, Rochester is a giant hospital. To it, each day, come hundreds of sufferers?by plane, train, motor, foot. All know that they will be treated. Twenty-five % are free cases; 30% pay the bare expenses of their own cases; 45% pay for running the Clinic. Besides the Brothers Mayo there are over 300 other medical men in town...
...Galesburg, Ill., and fervently shouted at a short, chesty orator, his opponent in debate: "He is blowing out the moral lights around us who contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them!" The lanky one was Abraham Lincoln, the other Stephen Arthur Douglas.("The Little Giant"). The building was Old Main of Knox College. Knoxmen may well be proud of her past. For Knox's 93 years have been as packed full of worthy happenings and worthy people as any little college west of the Alleghenies. Announced last week were preliminary plans for a merger with Knox...