Word: giant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pontiacs and Oldsmobiles are their "turret tops," which are exuberantly compared to the gun turrets of battleships. Immensely strong, sleek, graceful, they are shaped in a single mighty operation from single sheets of seamless steel. To whip them out the company's Fisher Body division has 18 giant new presses, largest of the kind ever built. Glowering edifices of gears, shafting, cable, motors and massive slides, the tallest of them tower 27 ft. above the floors, extend down another 12½ ft. into concrete pits. They deliver against the blanks a working pressure...
...Germany in the South Atlantic with her Graf Zeppelin and mail planes refueled by a ship anchored in midocean. Next summer Germany will launch a North Atlantic shuttle for mail & passengers with tne Graf's big sister, Hindenburg (LZ-129), and Pan American Airways will send its giant super-clipper ships experimentally across the Pacific. But by last week it became evident that the first to launch a North Atlantic mail service with heavier-than-air craft will most likely be Great Britain's Imperial Airways...
...measured at the Yerkes observatory. The star is new of the 2nd magnitude. The explosive outburst has therefore increased the brightness by more than 100,000 times in less than a month. The spectrum, observed at Harvard and at Flagstaff, now closely resembles the spectrum of the super-giant star, Alpha Cygni, with the addition of bright lines of hydrogen and from. Enormous velocities in the exploding atmosphere are indicated by these spectrum lines...
...famed college players have, as professionals, justified their amateur reputations. Illinois' Red Grange has been in the Chicago backfield for eight years. Minnesota's Bronko Nagurski has been the outstanding fullback of the League for the past five years. N. Y. U.'s Ken Strong is a Giant regular as is Michigan's Harry Newman. In his first season as a professional, Tennessee's Beattie Feathers has made an unprecedented record by gaining over 1,050 yd. for the Chicago Bears. Minnesota's Jack Manders, also a Bear, is a field goal expert who has only missed one point after...
Sing Sing's football team, whose star back, Alabama Pitts, may get a job with the Giants next autumn, is also a Mara sideline. At the end of the 1932 season, Mara presented Warden Lawes with a set of old Giant uniforms, suggested starting a prison team. The Sing Sing Black Sheep, coached by Giant players, have made $10,000 a year for the prison...