Word: prop
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Died. Aida de Acosta Breckinridge, 77, founder of Manhattan's Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration, a stylish Spanish-American who while a Paris schoolgirl became the first woman solo balloonist in 1903 by piloting a prop-powered dirigible across the Bois de Boulogne, displayed the same pluck in her lifelong welfare work, raising more than $3,000,000, though nearly blind herself from glaucoma, for the U.S.'s first major ophthalmological institute, opened in 1929, and in 1945 its first national eye bank; after a long illness; in Bedford...
...roared down the runway, bound for St. Louis, the atmosphere inside was glum enough: the staggering Cardinals had just dropped a doubleheader to the Pittsburgh Pirates. It quickly got worse. Just 30 seconds after takeoff, a portside engine conked out, and Cardinal ballplayers stared tensely at the feathered prop. Only Stan Musial seemed unruffled. Grinning from ear to ear, he turned to a teammate: "I can see the headline now. CARDINAL PLANE CRASHES -MUSIAL LONE SURVIVOR...
...turned out, the Tory government got more devaluation than it bargained for. Since last October, the foreign exchange fund has been forced to spend $516 million of its U.S. reserves not to press the dollar down farther, but to prop it up at 95? U.S. Last month the drain on its reserves was $115 million. Last fortnight heavy selling by foreign exchange speculators betting that the Canadian dollar would slump still lower suddenly raised serious doubt that the government could hold the line without exhausting the exchange fund altogether-and confronted it with a tricky political choice. Rather than...
After a year of financial difficulties, the Harvard Advocate has planned a meeting with its trustees and Dean Watson for May 1 in New York to decide on the of a fund drive to prop up the magazine's solvency...
...defense of the proposed increase, Deputy Post-master General H. W. Brawley has characterized the present second class rates as a "prop" for publishers, "to aid the building of a broad circulation base on which higher advertising rates can be mounted." Brawley's statement really applies only to the popular magazines, and it has some basis in fact. But these magazines can easily pass a rate increase on to their advertisers and subscribers...