Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...movement is what its leaders make it. The British Labor Party is still being made. Until James Ramsay MacDonald became Premier, the Party suffered from a surfeit of leaders. There appeared none who had an authoritative ascendancy over the others. Result: the Labor Party became "all things...
...efforts to find the body of the murdered Socialist allegedly failed. None of the prisoners gave any information on the point, but ex-Editor Filippelli of the Corriere Italiano admitted that he had given instructions for the kidnapping of Deputy Matteoti. One Amerigo Dumini, who kept his peace, was rumored to have carried out the murder...
...points out, there are four great buyers of steel who absorb about two-thirds of its entire output: 1) the railroads, which buy about 25%; 2) the building industry, which takes about 15%; 3) the pipe and tank industry, using another 15%; 4) the automobile business, using about 10%. None of these four, he thinks, will do much buying this year. The railroads are already in excellent physical condition, owing to heavy purchases last year. The building industry will use large amounts of steel this year, yet less than it did in 1923. The demand for pipe he also considers...
...these points-of-view. Skillful as Macready is, the failure of his engine at dead of night would certainly have meant a termination of his valuable career if not for the huge, umbrella-like parachute. Jumping from a plane is sufficiently hazardous, and calls for real nerve, and none of the men who fly these ships should be deprived of this last resort or fail to practice for the awful moment when they must jump. Whether passengers can ever be made to undertake the sickening leap into space is another matter...
...Chan nel after more than 48 hours in the air ; he had covered the comparatively short distance of 475 miles. Much longer flights have been accomplished in previous races, with over 1,100 miles as the world's record balloon flight. This - the 13th contest - was marked by none of the terrible accidents of last year, when three aeronauts lost their lives in a thunderstorm. The race was in no way remarkable nor was the competition as keen as had been expected. The balloon of Captain E. H. Honeywell, veteran American, on whom U. S. hopes were concentrated, landed...