Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most manufacturers guaranteed prices promise heaven on earth so long as the public does not find such prices a barrier to buying. Hence man by man, hour by hour, Business rose to argue and protest against what NRA proposed. The substance of the argument was put on its highest plane by George A. Sloan, head of the Cotton Textile Code Authority: ''Maximum hours and minimum wage provisions, useful and necessary as they are in themselves, do not prevent price demoralization. While putting the units of an industry on a fair competitive level in so far as labor costs...
...Mayo, Order of the British Empire, Associate Member of the Institute of Chemists, Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Major Mayo's invention, now building at Short Brothers' Rochester (England) plant, is known as the Composite Aircraft. Simple in theory, it consists of a small, fast mail plane with high wind loading, mounted rigidly atop a huge flying boat. Unable to leave the ground by itself fully loaded, the sleek little mail plane will perch atop the "mother ship" for the takeoff. With eight engines (four apiece) wide open, the Composite Aircraft will be able to rise easily...
...land there was more trouble. East of the Mississippi, from Alabama to Canada, airports announced "Zero-zero" weather, and air transport stood stock-still. For three days not a plane reached or left the world's busiest port at Newark. In Chicago a lost, invisible plane thrummed round & round the 30-story Furniture Mart for hours. In Alabama Lieut. James L. Majors, U. S. A., tried to land in a fog-wrapped field, crashed, died...
...addition to new features found on all cars in the low-price field, the Terra-plane, like the Hudson, has a modified self-shifter called the "Electric Hand" and increased horsepower. Somehow, the streamlining seems to have been more tastefully done than on the Fords...
...President Edward Eugene Loomis of Lehigh Valley R. R. said: ''The high plane of railroad performance today is one of the most important factors contributing to the strong position in which business finds itself...