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Rabelais' jocose giant Pantagruel, under whose tongue a whole army once hid, might find the 500-ft. U. S. plane now being designed no wonder. But certainly the Arabian roc, which carried off elephants for its nestlings as an eagle rapes a mouse, would shy from the monstrous thing U. S. engineers propose to build for $5,000,000. Who the financiers are, who the builders, was kept secret. That it was a bona fide project Harry Westcott of Westcott & Mapes, Inc., New Haven and Manhattan engineering firm, testified immediately after Governor John H. Trumbull of Connecticut had predicted...
...name of the latest roc of transportation is Curtiss-Wright Corp. Its net as sets are 70 million dollars. Its chiefs are to be Chairman Richard Farnsworth Hoyt, 41, Chairman of Wright Aeronautical Corp. & sundry others, and President Clement Melville Keys, 53, President of Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor...
Young sales managers with bright ideas searched through books on mythology for an international trade-mark intelligible to all nations in all languages, for Vacuum oil lubricating supply stations were dotting the earth, even to imperceptible islands of distant seas. The bright young men hit on the roc, huge bird that took Sindbad's baggy pants in its beak and carried him across mountains to drop him into a gully full of diamonds. But here a language difficulty arose. Roc sounds like rock. In German petroleum is rock-oil (Steinöl). Most unfortunately the bird of Persian mythology...
Indianapolis' Postmaster. When the Klan squatted upon Indiana like a roc in a dust bank, one of the things its leaders promised would hatch out was a new postmaster for Indianapolis. So, when the term of Postmaster Robert H. Bryson of Indianapolis expired two years ago and President Coolidge reappointed him, Representative Ralph E. Updike of Indianapolis went before the Senate Committee on Post Offices and objected. Senator Robinson of Indiana also helped obstruct Mr. Bryson's reappointment. Finally, last week, with Indiana's chief klansman behind bars for murder and the whole state in revolt...
...storm-cloud Roc has left...