Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gary, Ind., is essentially a steel city, its murky horizon is sliced jagged by towering smokestacks. An efficient Chamber of Commerce boasts to visitors that Gary has 515 acres of golf links, parks and playgrounds, a $1,000,000 community Church, a model public school plan. The visitor will listen politely. But he will always remember Gary as a grey city of steel and flame and smoke. At No. 1112 Broadway, Gary, a few blocks from the business district, is Central Trust & Savings Bank. Its location is in that part of Gary known as "across the tracks," the great flat...
...first photograph ever taken showing the earth's curvature. Snapped in one-fiftieth of a second from an airplane in South America by Captain Albert W. Stevens, U. S. Army photographer, the picture shows a stretch of 300 miles of pampas beyond which rise the Andes. The distant horizon line of the pampas is curved slightly downward at one end. The picture was taken on film made sensitive to red and infra-red rays (not scattered by earth's atmosphere like the shorter wavelengths) by the addition of kryptocyanine, a photo-sensitizing...
...National and Michigan Steel have been growing, President Fink has been rising on the steel horizon. He is 45, went to no college. After working in various steel companies, he was assigned the Detroit territory as a sheet salesman for West Penn Steel Co., was later made general sales manager. He suggested a mill in the Detroit area, could not sell the idea to his company. Big Detroiters backed him after he got enough contracts from automobile makers to keep the proposed company busy. This was, of course, Michigan Steel. Last year when he formed Great Lakes Steel he sold...
...near National Cash Register's factory at Dayton, on to Indianapolis' new municipal airport for another ten-minute stop. Beyond St. Louis no passenger will fail to notice the widening checkerboard of section line's. Thinning population is plainly charted by farm boundaries flung to the horizon...
...theme about the Great Emancipator, by a Freshman Gamaliel Bradford who wrote, "Abe Lincoln, his big feet more than filling the shoes of his weak-kneed predecessor, Buchanan, stepped into that gay, social whirl of guile and graft at Washington with a threatening warcloud darkening the Southern horizon." Another budding historian explained that "Queen Elizabeth was by this time firmly entrenched on her throne...