Word: rigidly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Another group of U. S. businessmen has been applying lighter-than-air pressure in Washington, to get the U. S. to re-establish itself in the rigid airship field. They could derive some encouragement last week from the annual report of Rear Admiral Arthur B. Cook, chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics. Admiral Cook made, without change, the recommendations made last spring by his predecessor, Rear Admiral Ernest J. King: for the U. S. to begin immediately the construction of a metal-hulled airship of 1,500,000 cu. ft. capacity, a larger airship...
...battle with the Whites which was coming as inevitably as Death. As soon as the street trenches were finished they were manned with taxi drivers, shop clerks, bricklayers, shoemakers, who were ordered to stay at their posts, eating and sleeping there until the attack on Madrid should come. A rigid 11 p. m. curfew was clamped on the capital. Every light went out. even privileged newshawks being forbidden in the streets. For a few paralyzing hours word flashed through the city that White bombers had broken the rail line to Valencia. that Madrid was completely cut off. German and Italian...
...went to lunch he left a wet slab on a hot press, hurried back, when he remembered, to remove it. Meantime a cranky steam valve had permitted the press to grow hotter and heavier with the result that Inventor Mason found, instead of a fibrous board, a dense, grainless, rigid sheet of material, which, in its present refined form of "Presdwood," accounts for 70% of Masonite's business. The other 30% is in fibre insulating board...
...Corp., No. 1 U. S. wallboard makers. Mr. Dahlberg makes his board of sugar cane fibre. He found, as Inventor Mason did, that hard board could be made from materials other than wood. By giving his sugar cane a little more heat and pressure, he too got a dense, rigid board. But Masonite sued and won, which meant that if anyone wanted hard board they had to buy Presdwood...
...three years Mrs. Bramy was able to look after her family. Then, to relieve her hardening heart, Surgeons Brunn & Brown were obliged to remove a rigid 2-by-3 in. section from her calcifying pericardium. That type of operation was rare. Rarer was the patient's survival in comfort for another two years...