Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from near the Red River to the Gulf, west of New Orleans, a route only half as long as the main channel of the Mississippi. Instead of being raised three feet like other levees, the "fuse plug" levees at the mouths of these floodways were left at the old level so floods would wash over them. Still a fourth protection was devised, the Bonnet Carre Spillway not far above New Orleans, to pour flood waters out of the main Mississippi channel into Lake Pontchartrain which is virtually an arm of the Gulf. Finally the whole river was shortened 100 miles...
...propellers. It takes a very powerful man to get it off the ground. Six-ft. 185-lb. Icarus Bossi could keep it up only 13 seconds on his first flight, has managed in later attempts to reach a height of 28 ft., speed of 20 m.p.h. from a standing, level start. So slight is the superiority of the human power-plant over friction and gravity that the plane will not take off from any but smooth concrete surfaces...
...quickened toward the year's end, Southern Pacific, for example, enjoying the best December in its history. An even better sign for U. S. railroads as a whole was that while the total gross revenue for December was more than 20% below 1929, net income was at 1929 level. The roads had learned to make more profit out of less business...
...Late in the year Dan Moran's Continental Oil and Edwin B. Reeser's Barnsdall Oil announced that they would open the play in 1937 with a 17? boost. This they did, but their fellow oilmen stayed out of the game, creating a dual price level in mid-continent territory. Then last week the rest of the industry decided to jack their prices not 17? but 12?, and Messrs. Moran & Reeser had to come down. Uniform posted prices prevailed once more, with the average now about...
...delayed a year in beginning their primary college work; they will not be allowed to look at their art until they are married to it with slim chances of divorce. This consideration reveals the folly of limiting an elementary course, and of limiting it, at that, at a level far below the present popular demand...