Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brief): All engines (Wrights) functioned normally on previous flights and on this takeoff. One engine failed shortly after the takeoff. Another may have failed later. The pilot was convinced that his plane was overloaded, ? He was not sufficiently familiar with the area in the immediate vicinity of the neighborhood. He paid insufficient attention to the direction and velocity of the wind. From the first period after the engine failure, he probably had decided on no positive complete maneuver...
Sergius Wjarasmutkin was managing, last week, a small factory in his village in distant Vladimir Province, Russia. On the second floor of the factory was the only hall in the neighborhood, a room about 24 feet square, with tiny windows and one door, used as a storeroom for tools and gasoline and cotton waste...
...continue the taking of photographs of the southern sky with the Bruce telescope of the Harvard University Observatory at Mazelspoort, South Africa. His plates will be compared with similar ones taken about 1900 to obtain information concerning the numbers, velocities, and intrinsic brightnesses of the stars in the neighborhood...
...secure a wider market for its shares. The first step in this direction was a decision taken four weeks ago to divide its stock from $100 shares into $25 shares, increasing the number proportionately from 500,000 to 2,000,000. The old stock is quoted in the neighborhood of $340; the new at about $85. In the recent purchase of 200,000 of the new shares from British holders and their offer to the public in the U.S., the company was careful to point out that it was not seeking new capital and that the traditional U. S. holders...
...result of recent rises in the price of copper. The average price received for its product in 1928 was 14.76? a pound. At the same rate of production, for every one-cent rise in copper prices earnings should increase $2,000,000. Now copper is in the neighborhood of 20? a pound. If the average for 1929 should be 19?, the earnings of Phelps Dodge would be $18,000,000. In proportion to the increased earnings dividend declarations have been stepped up from $3,500,000 in 1928 to a rate amounting...