Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best be explained by this syllogistic sequence: 1) the airlines cannot get along without airmail subsidy; 2) airmail contracts are let competitively to the lowest bidder; 3) therefore airlines often have to bid so low to get the contracts that the airmail subsidy literally costs them money. A perfect case in point took place in July when the Post Office Department opened the bids for four new airmail routes. The minor run from Cheyenne to Huron, S. Dak. went to Wyoming Air Service, for the realistic bid of 19.8? a mile. To be sure of getting the far more valuable...
...Field, Dayton, Ohio, with three men aboard, climbed to some 2,500 ft. where one of the men cut in the Sperry gyropilot and threw a mysterious switch. Then all three men leaned back with folded arms while the plane flew ten miles to Patterson Field and made a perfect landing, controlled not by a ground operator but solely by its own ability to follow a radio beam...
...upon any of the loans made to the Bardes, that he had never received any secret emoluments under the guise of salary or dividends. In his brief period on the stand, Banker Fleishhacker categorically denied all charges in the plaintiff's lengthy complaint, maintained he had acted in perfect good faith. Finally Lawyer Neylan called serious little Etienne Lang to the stand and twitted the Frenchman about gold bricks, international debts and finally, in an amazingly facetious bit of cross-examining, about the mythical story of Banker Fleishhacker and the drowned Chinese...
...Almost perfect mechanically. How stupid of me to forget. Now it all comes back. Harvard, of course. I used to teach there. Well, what's the Crimson...
...ward politics. But to keep in with the group that made prison life bearable called for more courage than Mansell possessed. For ten months microscopic amounts of dynamite were stolen from the quarry, until enough was collected for a sizeable explosion. The plan-hinging on bribery of guards and perfect timing-was for Mansell presumably to be buried under rock, while he escaped on a truck scheduled to pass at the moment. The explosion went off on schedule, the truck passed on time, but Mansell got cold feet at the last moment, was cursed by a Socialist who escaped...