Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collar. The drill pipe was fished out with difficulty but the collar was immovable. By means of a knuckle joint the frozen collar was sidestepped, and the hole, now pinched down to six inches, went on down. Near the bottom, the weight of the pipe was over a quarter of a million pounds. The temperature was nearly...
...President, often disturbed by low-flying airplanes-even in his dreams (TIME, June 13)-signed an executive order roping off a wide section of Washington over which civilian pilots may not fly without special permission from the Secretary of Commerce. The area: a quarter-mile outside of the rectangle at whose corners stand the Union Station, the Capitol, the Naval Hospital, the White House...
...this sort of rule at B.B.C., Sir John's salary has been about $35,000 annually. As director of Imperial Airways, he will get $50,000. To Imperial, organization under Sir John Reith may well mean the installation top-to-bottom of the rigid quarter-deck punctilio he commanded at B.B.C. As if in anticipation of Sir John's coming, the company last week had in strict training a corps of "flight clerks" for the jobs stewardesses do on U. S. airlines. In trim-cut uniforms they must work 18 hours a day for $25-$30 a week...
...Safety Bank & Trust Co., rose like spring sap to vice president. Whereupon he invented the CheckMaster Plan for handling checking accounts, a system which has been sufficiently imitated for him to refer to it, with fine Slavic enthusiasm, as "the only major development in deposit banking in the last quarter-century...
...trading on the floor of the Exchange, SEC Chairman William O. Douglas last week sat down with a round table of Exchange members, potent Wall Street investment bankers and representatives of the big insurance companies. Ideas broached to aid the Exchange included: 1) lowering the commission charged from one-quarter of a point to the one-eighth generally charged OTC; 2) admitting big bond dealers and institutions to associate membership on the Exchange...