Word: holing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...born by a Caesarean operation. In 1832, when ex-Philadelphia Jeweler Matthias W. Baldwin finished work on "Old Ironsides," his first born, he found it too big to go through the exit of his tiny shop. So, vowing he was through with locomotives, he cut a hole in the wall. But "Old Ironsides" surprised him, hit 28 miles an hour on the six-mile Philadelphia-Germantown run. That was fast enough to earn immortality as a locomotive pioneer. For Old Ironsides the end came in 1857 when a Vermont landslide mummified...
...Greensburg, Pa. swimming hole two boys goggled at a falling plane. While they stared, it fell on them, killed one, badly injured the other...
...railroads are anything but rosy. Class I roads had a net operating income of $85,808,000 in the first quarter this year (against $19,963,000 in the first quarter of 1938) but after paying their fixed charges they were $41,880,000 in the hole.* This loss is likely to increase in the second quarter as receding industrial production drags carloadings down with it. Lately many roads (particularly the B. & O.) have suffered acutely from the coal strike, for carrying coal is a big and profitable traffic...
...pair of 1,200-h.p. Wright Cyclonesrowling in a hangar; a glimpse of green fields through a hole in the overcast; 200m.p.h.; an odd pressure in your ears; a old jet of air in your face; a pretty hostess handing you hot chicken; a sleek transport drifting in to a landing, flaps extended like an old lady spreading her skirts as she sits down; a lean beacon fingering the dark. An airline is all these things, and it is a dollar-&-cents business. Last week the U. S. airline which once was shakier than most in dollars & cents took...
...settle the stroke below 33 for the first mile as Navy pulled alongside. It was finally lowered, but never could it build up more power than the Middies boat which measured off the same time. Finally the finish neared: Bill Rowe raised the stroke to a powerful 36 hole seemed to leave the Navy standing stil...