Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mining engineer this statement seems to offer obscurities. A rough calculation indicates that this amount of coal would be roughly 45 billion tons or a seam 100 feet wide, 1,000 feet deep and 5 miles long. I did not realize that Admiral Byrd had become such a prospector...
...house where the Brothers Wright lived and worked no longer stands in Dayton. Henry Ford carted it away for his collection of Americana at Dearborn, Mich. But on Dayton's northern outskirts lies a long, lusciously green field named Wright, shaped like an arrowhead, flanked by a long row of hangars and shops and a broad cluster of brick laboratory buildings. This is the heart and brain of the Air Corps, the home base of its Matériel Division, where every item of equipment used, from a gauge needle to a 15-ton bomber, is examined and tested...
...Voted to reconsider the vote by which it passed the Logan-Walter bill empowering Federal courts to set aside rulings and decisions of most Federal quasi-judicial administration agencies on a long list of grounds, thus drastically curbing the executive powers of those agencies. A provocative, extremely controversial bill, it was rolled through the Senate by Senator Logan one day when his Kentucky colleague, Leader Barkley, was napping (TIME, July 31). Logan acceded last week to Barkley's plea for reconsideration, but vowed to bring the bill up again next session...
...growers and pay some attention to them. Said one delegate to last week's Congress: "Poultry produces enough dollars every year to make the income of U.S. Steel Corp. look like chicken feed." He might have added that it is not much more profitable as a business. As long as three out of four eggs are a byproduct of general farming-produced with little direct cost-competition keeps prices down to a level where there is little profit in the business for most specialists...
...Author. William Blake is a small, garrulous man of 45, who was brought up in St. Louis, Chicago and Manhattan, the son of an army surgeon and descendant of a long line of atheists. A boy prodigy in mathematics and history, he quit school at 15 to become secretary to a retired millionaire who fancied radicals. An anarchist sympathizer, at 18 he made campaign speeches for Woodrow Wilson. He made and lost a War fortune in commodities purchased on borrowed money, turned conscientious objector when the U. S. entered the War. Since 1919 he has worked in Wall Street, managed...