Word: reached
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Picker, In lowland fields, cotton crops ripen unevenly, cannot be picked all at the same time. The mechanical picker had to be so de-signed that it would discriminate between ripe and unripe bolls. On the new machine, two arms reach out and gather in the spreading branches of the cotton bushes. Two vertical, revolving cylinders spined with close-set spindles, brush along the branches gently. The cylinders slide backwards horizontally on their bases at the same speed as the whole machine is moving forward. This saves the branches from being torn off the bushes. By the time the cylinders...
According to the Soviet version, M. Traikowicz then rushed to a wall and attempted to reach a gun hanging there. One Kudjen, Bolshevik, whipped out his revolver, poured five shots into M. Traikowicz, who fell dead...
...conferees pointed fingers at California's delegates and accused them of unfair bargaining. California protested that the 20-year clause was meant simply to protect one and all from the possibility of demands and projects by Mexico for Colorado water, which crosses a corner of that country to reach the Gulf of California. But U. S. Senator John Benjamin Kendrick of Wyoming forced California's hand by eliciting this admission from a California spokesman: "If Arizona is willing to grant California a larger allocation, California will grant her more time for development...
Hearst. Mrs. William Randolph Hearst donned trousers and blouse, helmet and goggles, stepped into Lloyd Bertaud's Old Glory, which William Randolph Hearst is financing for a flight to Rome. From the plane she radioed her husband: "Flying over Long Island. I hope the boys reach Rome in Old Glory. I think this is a most wonderful ship. [Signed] Millicent." The Hearst press reported the event widely, including pictures of Mrs Hearst in overalls, blouse, goggles, helmet...
Experts were pessimistic for his life. Paul Redfern was flying for the most part over unfrequented seas; some of the mountains and jungle had not been penetrated by explorers. He had no radio. Weather charts indicated unfavorable winds. Under the weather conditions it was figured he could not possibly reach Rio on his gasoline supply. Sixty hours after his take-off Redfern had not been heard from. His gasoline supply must have been exhausted. He was down somewhere. Just before he left he said: "Don't lose hope for my return for at least six months or more...