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They are equipped with luxurious trappings, hot and cold running water, sleeping compartments, radio sets, spacious windows. The 90-foot wing spread will lift, beside fuel and passengers, 1,000 pounds of baggage. The three Wright Cyclone motors will propel this load at an average 130 m. p. h. for four and one-half hours, could if necessary attain 155 m. p. h., climb 16,100 feet. Edgar M. Gott, president of the Keystone Aircraft Corp., has for the last two months kept the construction of these monsters a secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Biggest | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...argues Ritchie. Whether he can make a sufficient dent upon his party to propel it in the direction either of Jefferson or of Ritchie, we have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Presidential Possibilities | 3/10/1928 | See Source »

...past that last year an old gentleman from Wisconsin visiting Manhattan preferred to walk to the eleventh floor of the Equitable Building rather than entrust his person to the onslaughts of the pert chauffeurs who, with what seemed to him to be smiles of malice, offered to propel him toward his destination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Progress: In Office Buildings | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...cities of Minneapolis, Omaha, Denver, Cheyenne, Ogden, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Albuquerque, Emporia, Topeka, Kansas City. As early as Sept. 20, they would all (except the pamphlets, posters, bulletins) be back in Chicago to "superintend" the Tunney-Dempsey prize fight. In the interim Mayor Thompson planned to propel his hulking, ruddy figure into national politics by "preaching the doctrines of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. ... I am standing now for what the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence stood for. What was good enough for them is good enough for me!" Specifically, and divested of glamor, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Thompson s Crusade | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

Chicago Stock Exchange has been moribund of late years; trading has been provincial. Midwest security business that obviously should have been transacted in Chicago has gone to Manhattan. This has been a slough out of which R. Arthur Wood, elected president of the exchange last week, hopes to propel his organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Exchange Presidents | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

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