Word: margin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...climbed into his big white-&-purple Lockheed monoplane Winnie Mae and roared away from Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y., on his second flight around the world. Two years ago with Navigator Harold Gatty, he made an 8½-day record which he now proposed to beat by a generous margin. He was flying alone this time, but with a Sperry automatic pilot and a directional radio. Through fog, heavy clouds and snow, Pilot Post, robot & radio cut a superbly accurate course to Berlin in the phenomenal time of 25 hr. 45 min. The slowness of mechanics at Tempelhof Airdrome enraged...
Professor Johnson was instrumental in the construction of the Stadium on Soldiers Field and determined the kind and strength of iron and concrete necessary for a margin of safety. To test the strain which a crowd of enthusiastic football spectators would put it to, he had the entire varsity squad jump up and down on some trial benches...
...office, refused to give any information about them by mail. Blyth & Co.. in selling 147,500 shares of Kingsbury Breweries Co.; Manitowoc, Wis., issued a prospectus giving the com pany's earnings for May as $107,719 but added: "It should be recognized that the present margin of profit . . . is unusually large . . . to that extent the earnings during this period should not be used as an indication of what may conservatively be expected subsequently...
Harvard and Yale ended their respective and respectable track season on Saturday in a blaze of mixed glory, by defeating a redoubtable Oxford and Cambridge outfit. So meagre was the American margin of victory that the sum of the meet was in the nature of an upset, an upset for the expectation of the press which backed the home team to win things easily on Soldier's Field. For it was only in the last two events that the strong English invasion was turned back, and a deadlock achieved in the number of first places scored, six for each side...
...Bonds. The firm as a wholesaler of securities floats bond issues through syndicates. Because of its prestige it gets the pick of the business, the securities which are easiest to sell, of foreign governments (of England and Germany, for example), of great corporations without number. The margin of profit is small but because it gets the cream of the securities, the turnover is sure and rapid. If an issue of tens of millions can be floated over night, what if the profit is only $100,000? That is enough for a night's work...