Word: huges
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...buying U. S. grain. To spike this rumor up rose potent Saul G. Bron, Super-Purchasing & SuperSelling Agent of the Soviet State in Manhattan. Mr. Bron is large, untidy, jovial, shrewd and bland. He is a University of Zurich Ph. D. He served apprenticeship to his present post of huge responsibility as Minister of Foreign Trade for the Ukraine. With all the emphasis at his booming command Saul G. Bron said: "Regardless of all difficulties and obstacles, one thing is clear to me, and that is that the harvest of 1927-28 has supplied the Soviet Union with a sufficient...
Clevelanders last week learned why the hawk fed leisurely outside the Van Sweringen windows. Atop the 54-story tower building is a huge beacon. Birds migrating at night are blinded by the glare, dash against the building, drop broken-bodied to the balcony projection...
...natural, therefore, that sugarmen should look forward to 1929 with misgivings. Facing the certainty of huge Javanese production, the probability of an unlimited Cuban supply, sugarmen saw little reason to hope for high price levels. They could cling to no solid, saving spar. But they could clutch, if they liked, at either of two straws...
...most valuable single contribution to airplane efficiency since the War" was the epithet that Chairman Joseph Sweetman Ames of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics last week placed upon a new form of cowl for radial air-cooled motors. The cowl, shaped like a huge bowl, fits over the cylinders back of the propeller and over the entire motor. It cuts down air resistance; it lets a plane that can go 118 m. p. h. go 137 m. p. h.; it saves in such case about three gallons of gasoline for every hour of flight, and it costs only...
...Huge Salvatore Ruggirello, 6 ft. 4 in. tall, 215 pounds in weight, entered a prize-ring in Paris and was knocked out by Primo Camera, 6 ft. 11 in. tall, 266 pounds in weight...