Word: propeller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...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...
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...
...produced "Maximite," an explosive that can be shot through armor-plate and exploded on the other side. Among his other inventions are: a high- velocity rifle shell capable of a speed of a mile a second; and "Motorite," an energetic compound to generate intense heat to make steam to propel a torpedo...
...steel "cigar," 82 ft. long, 10 ft. in diameter, which he said will be able to cross the Atlantic in two days. It is designed to travel half-submerged. Tubes in the upper surface of the whalelike hull inhale air. The engines, developing 2,400 horsepower, will propel the craft 62 m. p. h.* It will carry eight passengers and enough fuel for 60 hours cruising at top speed. Before the end of 1927, Signor Bugatti hopes to send his boat on its maiden voyage...