Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under the towering cypresses of the Villa d'Este at Tivoli. Carefully the statesmen avoided any talk of a political alliance, any mention of the repressed German-speaking minorities in the South Tyrol. Finally came news. Chancellor Brüning and Premier Mussolini made a trade agreement. Germany agreed to lift certain of her emergency restrictions on the purchase of foreign currency to allow Italy to market her surplus crop of oranges and lemons in Germany. Italy agreed to purchase from Germany the same amount of coal she had been receiving as part of her share of reparations. Il Duce arranged...
...caused when water plugs a vent from the earth's hot interior to the surface. The interior heat boils the deep water, which at first cannot escape because of the weight of the water higher up in the hole. A moment arrives when steam pressure is enough to lift all the water out of the hole. At that moment practically all the pent water suddenly changes to steam. The geyser spouts, subsides, until the critical steam pressure is again built up by subterranean heat...
...Lift 162,000 lb. in addition to herself...
...Tannersville Mrs. Adams is considered something of a character. She is supposed to have inherited a considerable fortune from her husband, George L. Adams, a tanner. She owns several automobiles, yet is frequently seen walking the nine miles between Tannersville and Stroudsburg, or hailing motorists for a lift. Tall and lean, she dresses plainly, wears cotton stockings. She plays the piano with exceptional skill, is locally famed as a china-painter. During the War she was under surveillance as a pro-German, suspected of being a distant relative of General Erich Ludendorff...
Original plans for the Akron prescribed a lift of 221,000 lb. for the airship herself, and capacity for a useful load of 182,000 Ib. Last week the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics estimated that the ship will be 19,000 to 20,000 Ib. overweight. The exact figure cannot be determined until after the final strips of covering are applied to the envelope and the ship is "weighed off" with lifting gas. By its contract with...