Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strange men poking around his farm. They tapped the ground and from down below where you bury people, oil flowed out. Jackson's bronzed face wrinkled in astonishment. His neighbors told him he was rich. That made him grin. He continued to live in his shack and tend his garden. In far-off Washington a ledger under his name began to show mounting figures of royalty oil profits...
...human field where the theories may have consequences is in aviation. The airplane motor is operated by electricity set moving by the magneto and intensified by electro-magnetic coils. When the plane is on the ground electricity and its spark act in a definite fashion. Perhaps that fashion changes when the plane is high in the air?powerfully lifted against the earth's force of gravity and swiftly moved with or against earth's rotational force. The possibility of such change may account for some airplane accidents. Perhaps such possible changes can be foreseen, calculated, forestalled. Perhaps?not to venture...
...automobiles. Every plane has on the under side of a wing and on its rudder a letter and number. Those are the Department of Commerce's permit symbols. The Department has issued more than a hundred permits. Rarely, except with field glasses, are the symbols discernible from the ground...
...type, shape and motor of planes give a clue to their flying identity. Here are some from-the-ground descriptions...
...ground for the new swimming pool and gymnasium was cleared of its buildings with the removal of the historic Hicks house in the early part of January. The period of inactivity will end today with the bringing in of a steam shovel. Excavation will proceed rapidly once ground is broken...