Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaker Garner last week was un-muzzled long enough to speak in his own defense. His first campaign speech was delivered over a nationwide radio hook-up from Manhattan. Informal, aggressive, he demonstrated what his 30 years in the House had taught him about political debate...
True it is that able Major Woolson, in 1928, designed Gar Wood's four Packard motors. But it was Mr. Wood who developed them. By supercharging he stepped them up to 1.600 h.p. from 770 h.p. And he designed the gear boxes by which he can hook up two motors to each propeller...
...fires out. On the bridge Captain Van Dulken jangled telegraph handles, shouted down speaking tubes, stumped about like a bipedal Stuyvesant. The crew stayed stubborn and the Rotterdam drifted uncomfortably close to the coast of France. Finally Captain Van Dulken capitulated, but he still had a retort. Off the Hook of Holland a company of 30 Dutch Marines clambered aboard. Escorted by the mine layer Van Meerlant, the Rotterdam put into her home port where four indomitable policemen waited on the quay. Nine foreign members of the crew and one Dutch sailor were arrested as agitators. The rest...
...generally arranged as vacation trips. A ten-day wild life survey by three Senators (Nevada's Pittman, Connecticut's Walcott, Missouri's Hawes) with their salaried assistants cost $1,983,67. Among the itemized expenses were: motorboat hire, $60; mineral water, $31; Minnesota fishing licenses, $22; one spoon hook, $1.25; three sinkers, 15¢; can of minnows, 75?...
...week Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett revealed how the Akron is reversing that practice. When atmospheric conditions make it impossible for the ship to land without valving out part of her costly helium, her commander flashes a radio call for two combat planes. The planes fly out from Lakehurst, hook on to the Akron. The 6,000 lb. added ballast permits the ship to land without loss...