Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wall Street men take time to talk about the weather, but one morning last week a group sat in an office where Wall Street meets the East River and talked of little else. The occasion: a demonstration of the weather charting system which American Export Line expects to use when and if its subsidiary, American Export Air Lines, Inc., starts flying the Atlantic. Along one wall stood a huge map of the North Atlantic. Dotting the 3,445-mile course from Manhattan to Lisbon via the Azores were India-ink silhouettes of 14 ships, nine American Exporters, five Fascist...
From this line the first weather message came from the Exporter Exermont, northeast of Bermuda in the Gulf Stream. ''Wind: south-south-west; force: six m.p.h.; weather: few clouds; barometer: 30.37; visibility: excellent; temperature: 84° F." Soon other reports came jumbling in. Hour later the course was marked with weather bulletins all across the southern route...
Next April, with American Export flying a 15-ton Consolidated flying boat and the Italians a new Cant-Trieste seaplane, the two lines will start four months of survey flying along their joint line. Hoping for eventual Civil Aeronautics Authority sanction, the new partners are planning 60-to-70 passenger sleeper ships to be built in both countries from jointly drawn specifications...
...Luckman began to bomb the Army's defense. In the last quarter, with Columbia trailing 13-to-18, Luckman threw three passes and three times succeeded in speeding the ball toward a touchdown in a 96-yd. drive. Although Fullback Gerry Seidel carried the ball over the goal line, the rousing cheers that came from 25,000 exhausted throats were mostly for Sid Luckman. For his earlier point-after-touchdown had won the game for Columbia. Hero Luckman, however, calmly stepped up to the ball, kicked another point-after-touchdown for good measure. Final score: Columbia 20, Army...
...even the most sensitive drinker displays no ill effects. Above a concentration of 1.5 mgms. every one is drunk. Between these rates lie in dividual variations of sullenness, hilarity, recklessness and melancholy. Hence, Dr. Haggard proposed that police set a stand ard of 0.5 mgm. as the "arbitrary dividing line between sobriety and an appreciable influence of liquor...