Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...change. Now Clare Hoffman approvingly quotes A. F. of L. to the considerable embarrassment of Bill Green, who strenuously opposes even more drastic alterations proposed by Hoffman, Burke, N. A. M., the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. John Lewis' C. I. O. resists any change, on the ground that once the Wagner Act is opened up for amendments, Labor's enemies may have a field...
After three days of fighting, a truce was declared. As peace negotiations began in Budapest, Hungary claimed a complete victory. Official Hungarian statements said that the railroad was captured, eleven Slovak planes had been brought down and 17 destroyed on the ground; that the only Hungarian loss was the capture of two men who had accidentally taken a wrong road. Slovak dispatches listed 23 Hungarian dead and 55 wounded. German communiques insisted the whole thing was just a border incident...
...snarling roar as her pilot put her nose downhill through the overcast one day last week. From the clouds 10,000 feet above them she burst into view, fleet, round-bodied. A black speck burst from her left side, grew with incredible rapidity as it hurtled to the ground-an engine. Her sleek left wing swung back, twisted in the air and fell away as her engines alternately roared and growled...
...Egtvedt of Boeing declared: "It was . . . one of the best we have built. I can't believe the fault lay in the ship itself." Quick to deny that this implied sabotage was Boeing. But the facts remained that the first Stratoliner, carefully built and tested on the ground, had flown about 23 hours in closely supervised engineering tests without sign of structural weakness, that into her building had gone all the genius that had produced the Army's successful flying fortresses, Pan Am's 74-passenger flying boats...
...most important requirement was that the new ship must neither fall off nor spin from stalls no matter how flown. Other specifications: pilots must be able to slam on brakes at any landing speed without fear of nosing over; the plane must be manageable on the ground in winds up to 30 miles an hour; preferably it should be steered like an auto mobile, have no rudder bar. The only other thing expected of it, joked veteran fliers, was that it should mind the baby...