Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...working to enforce Prohibition, on Congressional appropriations of approximately $20,000,000 per year. Arrests averaged 75,000 per year, with about 70,000 cases turned over to Mrs. Willebrandt for prosecution. Government was getting convictions in about 75% of the cases tried. Instead of dwindling on the horizon as a political and moral issue, Prohibition had waxed larger with each passing year. The Wet question had become serious: "When does Prohibition...
...from $166,000 that now is to be devoted to the gymnasium, there will yet remain a surplus amounting to $350,000 in the H. A. A.. treasury at the end of the year 1930. Consequently, if the possibility of any beneficence hovers over the edge of the horizon, the Physics department seems most deserving of sympathy, most dependent upon outside...
...yachtsmen and amateur motorboat men . . . are law-abiding citizens, yachts and motorboats used solely for pleasure . . . will not ordinarily be stopped . . . unless suspicious circumstances warrant such action. . . . No person is safe to be entrusted with the navigation of any vessel who does not occasionally take a glance around the horizon. Such a proper lookout will disclose . . . any Coast Guard boat . . . signaling you to stop. The Coast Guard boat will use her whistle or horn or a megaphone or visual signals ... to attract your attention. ... It may be necessary for the Coast Guard craft to fire a blank warning shot...
Great as has been the discussion concerning the despoliation of Europe's old masters by Americans, a still more furious storm threatens on the horizon. According to a recent dispatch to the New York Herald Tribune, an American connoisseur of art has carried from the shores of France no less than a historic relic of primary importance, a monument to French Democracy--in fact, the very bath tub in which the great Marat was stabbed by Charlotte Corday. This new fad of Americans no longer to confine themselves to purely artistic objects and to enter the field of historic memorials...
Aviation. To the pilot, aviation may mean a job, a salary. To the pedestrian, it may mean dark specks droning toward the horizon. To the entrepreneur, it means stocks, incorporations, earnings, mergers, an infant industry for skilled hands to shape. One such shaping took form last week with the incorporation of United Aircraft and Transport, Inc. A holding company, it will own all stock of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. (Wasp, Hornet motors), Chance Vought Corp. (Corsair planes) Boeing Airplane and Transport Co. (manufacturers and transporters). Capitalization: 1,000,000 shares 6% preferred, par $50; 2,500,000 common. President: William...