Word: millionths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editor of the Chicago Tribune, climbed into a ten-passenger American Airways plane, started back to his job. For fellow passengers he had a Manhattan advertising man and an Ohio sanitary engineer. Pilot Walter Hallgren had made the St. Louis-Chicago run for six years and was approaching his millionth flight mile. After the plane had bored 100 mi. into Illinois, thick, wet snow began to envelop it. The Chicago radio operator heard its pilot report: "Visibility one-eighth mile, ceiling 500 ft., ice forming on wings and tail." Hallgren did not hear Chicago order him to turn back...
...brought from Dearborn: Ford's original machine shop, an 1863 Austin steamer, a one-cylinder Cadillac of 1902, the first Ford Model A of 1903, Ford's "999" racer with which he broke the world's speed record in 1902, the first Model T, the 15-millionth and 20-millionth Ford. Against this background, the Ford 1934 models were unveiled to the public simultaneously with countrywide unveilings in every Ford dealer's showrooms...
...growth of investment banking and the incubation of speculative enterprise. Indeed, there have been indications that they, alone of the mok-a-moks, perceived that vital contradiction which imperilled the economic organism in which their own success was hatched. Over seven years ago, when Henry Ford manufactured his ten millionth motor car, and the moguls of efficiency were prostrate in self gratulation, he ventured to inject a single sour note. His remark was commonplace enough, considered in the light of our own days, but in 1926 it had an alien and an unfriendly sound. What would happen when the market...
...infra-red rays are in the long-wave end of the electromagnetic spectrum. They are really heat waves, capable of penetrating clouds. The Macneil Sextant has a curved reflector that collects and potently focuses infra-red rays on a thermocouple, two pieces of metal which when heated even one-millionth of 1° give off a tiny flow of electricity. This flow is enormously amplified, measured by a galvanometer. When the curved reflector is pointed directly at the sun, the flow of electricity is greatest and the navigator can "shoot"' the invisible...
...metal does a gas go, skin-deep or throughout? Dr. Abraham Lincoln Marshall proved?with special heating, evacuating and analyzing devices ?that gas thoroughly permeates metal. From a piece of molybdenum he extracted a speck of gas one-eighth the volume of a common pin, one 100-millionth of an ounce. Dr. Marshall found it a mixture of 43% carbon monoxide, 57% nitrogen...