Word: productions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stream thuds into the pit, splashes out in a vast circle, flows like hardening lava across the floor. Should the hypothetical fire-worshipper, unused to these modern manifestations of his fire-god, permit himself to become engulfed in this onrush of liquid metal, he would speedily become one more product of combustion, most readily disposed of by being shoveled back into the furnace to be remelted with the rest of the slag. Yet, though the steel-worker dodges many a flying spark, many a molten stream, the liquid steel does not ordinarily waste itself on the pit floor. When steel...
Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. Largest steel producer west of the Mississippi. Main works at Pueblo, Colo. Strike in company coal mines lowered 1928 earnings (first nine months, $1.54 per share). Steel rails are its chief product...
...Lovely Lady", the latest Mitzi vehicle to reach Boston where it now graces the boards of the Wilbur Theatre, is a typically hot-house musical comedy product. The first act has as its locale the screen room of the "Royale Hotel" on the Island of Caprice off the Coast of France; the second act is for the most part confined to a boudoir of the same hotel. The motivation of the plot is provided by the refusal of an arbitrary young heiress to marry the foolish Lord Islington. To escape the marriage she persuades the young Prince Paul De Morlaix...
...open cockpit monoplanes and biplanes. Most models, however, were "closed jobs," built as coupes, sedans, coaches, cabins, buses. All but four planes were single-motored, with Pratt & Whitneys, Wrights, Warners, leBlonds, for the most part.† Exceptions were the trimotored Fords, Fokkers, Boeings and Kreutzers (a new Los Angeles product) and the twin-engined Sikorsky amphibian. Notable for the interest they excited in visitors and the sales they engendered were...
...important by-product of the Jones missionary work is the impending disintegration of India's rock-ribbed caste system. The Nationalist movement and infiltrations of Western civilization have already shaken it. But, says Dr. Jones. Christianity's recognition of individuals and their equality in the sight of God will deal the most telling blow...