Word: poled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cargo of caviar, furs and mail. Having greater speed but less range than the single-motored pioneers of the route, this red and blue giant was scheduled to stop for fuel at Fairbanks, Alaska. By week's end it had not reached this far-northern outpost. Approaching the Pole in sub-zero temperature, it had battled tremendous winds and ice. One motor had failed. Then the radio went silent and it eventually became apparent that the ship was down somewhere between the Pole and Alaska. Since six weeks' rations were aboard and there is plenty of room...
Suddenly, just after the big transport had drummed some 25 ft. above the highway at the south end of the field, there were three rending crashes, whop! when the ship slammed full-tilt into a foot-thick pine power pole, crack! when the motors ripped out and thudded to earth, and smash! when the rest of the stricken plane bashed into a palmetto thicket. There was a spurt of flame from one motor, then silence...
...afternoon when twelve of the best three-year-olds in the U. S. lined up, the track was firm but the trotters were skittish. Nine times the field failed to get off to a clean start behind Wrestling Promoter Paul Bowser's DeSota, entitled by lot to the pole position in the first heat. Two horses were so unmanageable that the judges had to set down and replace their drivers, Veteran Doc Parshall and Amateur Dunbar Bostwick, trotting enthusiast of the Long Island polo family, who was driving his bay filly, Hollyrood Audrey, in his first Hambletonian...
...chances materially improved by the winner's position at the pole, Shirley Hanover stepped out smartly in the second heat. In the backstretch her driver, Henry Thomas, seemed to ease, and for a moment lost the lead. But as Schnapps and Farr both broke into a gallop and were pulled to the outside, Shirley Hanover once more shot ahead in the homestretch. Time for the second and winning heat was an equally remarkable...
About 3,000,000 of the telephone poles now standing are products of Joslyn Manufacturing & Supply Co. of Chicago. This is less than one-twentieth the number that U. S. travelers see flicking past them on the highways of the land, but it is enough to make Joslyn the biggest independent U. S. telephone pole supplier.* From Idaho it gets trimmed poles of western red cedar, 25 to 35 ft. tall, creosotes them at its Chicago plant and sells them for $5 to $7. The company also manufactures a complete line of cross-arms, insulators, brackets, pins and other power...