Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five expeditions were on hand in Peru this week to make the best of the late afternoon performance-one Peruvian, one Japanese, three U. S. Pan American-Grace Airways, Inc. lent an airliner to take a group of observers up 30,000 ft. into the crystal clarity of the substratosphere. At the other end of the eclipse path, the National Geographic Society-U. S. Navy Expedition set up camp on Canton Island in the Phoenix group, inhabited mainly by millions of rats (descended from shipwrecked ancestors). This party was equipped with a new material for measuring the polarization...
...single-decked suspension with two piers, the bridge has a total length of 9,266 ft. The main span is 4,200 ft. long, 700 ft. more than George Washing ton Bridge's centre span. The two grace ful towers are 746 ft. high, the clearance of the six-lane roadway and two passenger walks over the water, 220 ft. More intriguing than all these statistics are the allowances for the great stresses which the bridge may meet. In case a hurricane sweeps in from the sea, it can swing 21 ft. out of line without harm. When...
...labor question ... is the outstanding problem in today's industrial life" declared Bethlehem Steel's Eugene Grace in a farewell address to the members of the American Iron & Steel Institute in Manhattan last week. To the nation's steelmasters, gathered in record numbers against a backdrop of the biggest steel strike since 1919 (see p. 13); the outstanding and directly related question was Mr. Grace's successor as head of the Steel Institute. The settlement by which Myron Taylor had made his peace with John L. Lewis had split the industry as it had never been...
...representative of the new order and those two hard-bitten foes of organized labor, Republic Steel's Tom Mercer Girdler and National Steel's Ernest Tener Weir. For three hours the Institute s directors battled in a secret session frequently punctuated by heat-treated speeches from Mr. Grace. On emerging. the directors blandly announced the unanimous election of Steelman Girdler, whose Chicago plant was within a few hours to be steel's bloody ground for the week. One of the two vice-presidencies went to Mr. Irvin, the other to Mr. Weir, who later greeted the banqueting...
...little War Admiral's weight 100 Ib. over the winter. He finally contrived to grow from 15 hands to 15 hands, 3 inches. Listed in the Derby winter books at 15-to-1, War Admiral's odds dropped fast when he won two races at Havre de Grace this spring. In both he exhibited his sire's famed trait of taking the lead at the start, keeping it to the finish. Like Man o' War, War Admiral has a slightly peevish disposition. Much of the eight-minute delay at last week's start was caused...