Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greater picture: its two themes that weave in and out like strands in a symphony are the unpredictable, uncontrollable actions of two men who are in love with the same woman--the futility and sacrifice and tragedy of such a situation--and the similar and strikingly parallel futility and sacrifice and tragedy...
Last year Douglas launched the DC-3, a luxury version of the DC-2. Now abuilding is Lockheed's parallel to the DC-3- the S-14, an eleven-passenger luxury version of the Electra. Last week Lockheed announced that the first eight S-14s had been ordered by Northwest Airlines, which bought the first Electra. In June the bigger, roomier S-14s will replace Northwest's present Electras on its 2,000-mi. run from Chicago to Seattle, give it the fastest fleet in the world-cruising at 224 m.p.h., with top speed...
...reached. Tank tracks lead to where they died, not as cowards but defending skillfully constructed machine-gun and automatic-rifle positions, where the tanks found them and where they still lie. The track of a tropical hurricane leaves a capricious swath of complete destruction, but the two parallel grooves the tank leaves in the red mud lead to scenes of planned death worse than any hurricane leaves...
...Arabian Nights tale of the deadly lodestone island which drew the iron nails and bolts from passing ships, causing them to be wrecked on its jagged cliffs. Last week one G. H. Gray. Lloyd's agent at Bridlington, England, declared that he had discovered a modern parallel to this myth...
Yaleman Garland went to Pittsburgh's Shady Side Academy, but his financial progress ran roughly parallel to valuation placed on his patent, which he acquired for $500 in stock. By easy stages this pat ent was written up to $7,500, then to $1,000,000, again to $3,250,000 and finally to a good round $32,500,000. At that point Yaleman Garland left Automatic Signal to Professor Fisher, taking off for a land of pure corporate romance. This he populated with no less than 30 companies, the functions of which were even vaguer than their assets...