Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hamlet. It was a tremendous surprise to the professional politician. Mr. Mellon was supposed to be an amateur in national politics. But he was able to frame a taxation proposal that received almost unanimous support from the business men of the country. The politicians held their ears to the ground, and then, since the roar of applause was unmistakable, their hands began to clap...
...reparations tangle was when Germany was reported to have " repudiated the Treaty of Versailles so long as the French and Belgians occupy the Ruhr." This meant that payment of every kind of reparations would cease. The report was previous; but is considered likely to be restated officially. The ground upon which Germany was said to have based its alleged attitude toward the Treaty is that the Treaty has already been nullified by the Ruhr occupation, which Germany holds is illegal. If such a step were taken it was considered that France would be obliged to repudiate her foreign debts owing...
From the Ruelle Arsenal to the Gavres testing ground, near St. Nazaire, was shipped a monster gun with a range of over 60 miles, throwing a projectile half a ton in weight, measuring 68 feet from breech to mouth. It was built in 1918 and was intended as an answer to Germany's "Big Berthas...
...always considerable hazard in such work. But now (for the first time in American aviation) a dirigible has been made fast to a mooring mast. With Captain Frank R. McCrary and Captain Anton Heinen, the German engineer-pilot, in charge, the Shenandoah, her nose about 200 feet above the ground, glided towards the apex of a huge mooring mast which stands some 1,500 feet west of the Lakehurst hangar. As the dirigible approached the mast, it dropped a steel cable. A ground crew of three officers and 15 men seized the cable and fastened it to another cable attached...
...shows a maximum reading is the whole tuning up process. A motor generator set, driven by a storage battery which the engine charges just as an automobile does, supplies the necessary pressure of 1,000 volts. Two hundred feet of trailing wire, let out when the plane leaves the ground, constitutes the antenna...