Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only is Premier Hertzog a rock-ribbed gold standard man but he also hates credit inflation of every sort. "The purchase of a motor car on credit," said he in prosperous 1929, "has become the greatest danger to society. There is nothing today which so seriously threatens ruination to farmers as the motor car evil...
...Walter P. Chrysler became Man of the Year his Manhattan office building was starting to rise as the world's tallest, his Chrysler Motors organized to vie with General Motors. Now the Chrysler Building is overtopped by the Empire State and the automobile industry is pinioned on the rock of hard times. The prestige of 192g's Man of the Year, Owen D. Young, world financier, friend to Samuel Insull, is still great but even he has produced no sovereign simple for prostrate business...
Craig Wood, seasoned professional of Deal, N. J.: the national match play open golf championship, 2 & 1, from Al Espinoza, next-to-eldest of the famed four golfing Espinozas; on a course frozen rock-hard at San Francisco...
...Station consists of an excavation in solid rock 22 feet square, with the floor 15 feet beneath the earth's surface and the roof covered with six feet of rock and gravel. It is completely lined with concrete walls two feet thick, and the delicate recording instrument will be placed on concrete piers 30 Inches high, and five feet wide. This insulation will insure almost perfect recording of earthquakes, as the station will be entirely free from traffic disturbances, temperature changes, and all other interference...
...four essentials of a good seismographic station, according to Leet, are isolation from traffic, large size, deep burial, and surrounding rock. In each of these respects the Harvard station is probably unsurpassed by any of the 250 seismographic stations in the world, of which about 30 are on the North American continent. The station here is the only one in New England, the nearest being in Ottawa, Canada, and New York City. Burial in solid rock is relatively unique...