Word: placing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Steel has lately been going at record pace. Best second quarter earnings since the war. . . . Unprecedented third quar ter generally predicted. . . . Industry operating at almost 95% of capacity. . . . Great Northern Railroad has bought 30,000 tons of steel rails. . . . Northern Pacific and Pennsylvania expected soon to place 15,000-ton orders each. . . . Rail roads will buy nearly twice as many freight cars in 1929 as they bought in 1928. . . . Two Chicago office buildings are using 14,-000 tons of structural steel. . . . General picking up in the building industry. . . . Automobiles expecting a 5,200,000 1929 production. . . . Production is expected...
There's no place like home...
...principle of rocket motion is simple-action and reaction. Escaping gases act in one direction, the rocket body in the opposite. The ground is not necessary for the rocket gases to push against in order to propel the rocket. Nor is the air. Such action and reaction can take place in a vacuum, a fact which has driven Professor Goddard on his experiments. His objective is not to see how far he can shoot a rocket but to investigate the physics of the earth's third and outermost blanket...
There's no place like home...
There's no place like home...