Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dutchman and a U. S. citizen not very lean or very tall have been engaged for three and one-half and two years respectively in rehabilitating the fiscal administrations) of Austria and Hungary. Both men have borne the title: High Commissioner of the League of Nations. Both have administered huge, League-floated loans to such good effect that the budgets of Austria and Hungary balance and their currencies are stable...
...flying post in Dayton, Ohio, with a heating apparatus around it to protect it from the 80°-below zero weather of 35,000 feet aloft. Then he will ascend, take panoramic views showing 318 miles of earth at once, with little blotches for great cities, tiny veins for huge rivers...
...order came. Compressed air pumps sent buoyancy to six 40-ton steel pontoons made fast to the submarine 132 feet below. Meanwhile the wind whipped up heavy combers which rolled the ships gayly. In the greysome depths eels and fishes saw the huge barnacled steel whale shift about and sway in her bed like a restive sleeper, start behemothly for the surface. On the reeling decks above workers were astonished to see the nose of the sunken monster suddenly poke through the waves and into the sunlight once again. The crews cheered. In another moment the amidships pontoons appeared...
...that he had designed, a plane with ten 28-cylinder motors capable of 10,000 total horsepower; with wings each spanning 400 feet, in which there would be cabins for the 130 passengers whom the air leviathan could whisk across the Atlantic in 36 hours. There would be six huge pontoons for landing, if necessary, on the sea, and in these a crew of 25 mechanics would be berthed. Tons of trunks and fuel for 16 hours of top-speed flying were provided with stowage and lifting power. From control cabins in the wing tips the pilots would set their...
Mineralogist W. F. Foshag is making the first scientific survey of the world's richest silver mines, in Mexico. Workings begun centuries ago by the Toltecs still produce voluminously. At Guanajuato, 12 hours from Mexico City, Dr. Foshag will visit the huge Veta Madre (Mother Vein) where the work shaft is 1,700 ft. deep and 30 in diameter through solid rock. He will see the magnificent Cathedral of Chihuahua, built in the 18th Century by two escaped convicts who, having stumbled upon the mines now called for Santa Eulalia, promised the edifice to a priest if he would...