Word: orbital
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prides itself as "the Eastern city of the South." It boasts its 19 golf courses, its 28-story Magnolia building, its (oil-burning) spotlessness. But it was none of those things that put Dallas on the front page of every newspaper in the U. S. last week; it was Orbit chewing...
William E. Easterwood Jr. (colonel on Governor Dan Moody's staff) inherited wealth from his banker-father, made millions more from the southwest sales agency for Orbit gum. The Orbit business was bought by William Wrigley Jr., who continues to distribute it through the Easterwood agency. Touring Europe this summer with his wife, rich Col. Easterwood, publicity-loving, met Dieudonné Coste and Maurice Bellonte, offered them $25,000 if they would continue their Paris-New York flight to Dallas. According to one account, Col. Easterwood gave $75,000 to finance the entire trans-Atlantic flight, one-third...
With the passing of Labor Day, business rounds a definite turn in its seasonal orbit, enters upon the straightaway that usually is marked by its greatest speed. Last week economists, statisticians, chart readers anxiously awaited the first indication of what business will do after this year's turn. It will probably speed up. The question: Will its advance be as great as that of a normal year, or will it be a sluggish, short response which, in a weighted chart, would represent decline? Factors began to appear last week. The Market. As if in anticipation of the long-rumored...
...Orbit: elliptical, with long diameter ap proximately 144; billion miles...
Looking at a photograph of the sky made five days ago, Harvard scientists were able to spot the comet in its orbit. The photograph was made as part of the daily routine of the Observatory...