Word: sec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...controlled General Investment Corp. The Bahama company bought General Investment Corp. stock from the public, sold it to General Investment Corp. itself at a profit of $14.50 a share on the transaction. This deal is being looked into not only by the Bureau of Internal Revenue but by the SEC...
...into the final lap to pass him. Twenty yards from the finish, San Romani spurted ahead of Cunningham and Lash uncorked his galloping sprint. As far as the spectators could see, they split the tape neck and neck. Both were clocked by their individual timers at 4 min. 7.2 sec., half a second short of the world mark of Cunningham who finished a close third. It took the judges five minutes of rapid argument to decide that San Romani had won by a thumb. Gene Venzke had missed his try for the three-quarter record by 8/10 of a second...
...freighter for the foreign trade had been built in U. S. shipyards for 15 years. He asked Congress to provide 1) a $10,000,000 appropriation, 2) authorization to contract for $150,000,000 worth of ships, as a starter for his friend Joseph Kennedy, once head of SEC, now chairman of the Maritime Commission, charged with subsidizing the rundown merchant fleet of the U. S. into efficient operating order...
Calculated maximum totality at the noon point in mid-Pacific was 7 min. 4 sec. Astronomers James Stokley of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute and John Quincy Stewart of Princeton did not quite reach this point in the S. S. Steelmaker, a freighter belonging to a subsidiary of U. S. Steel Corp., but with sympathetic co-operation from the captain they did get close enough to expect a duration of 7 min. 2 sec. Actually they were in the shadow cone for 7 min. 6 sec.-longer than the mathematical maximum-because while the shadow fled eastward the ship...
...been no seven-minute-plus eclipse in 1,200 years, there will be two more of them in the 20th Century-one in Ceylon, Siam and the Philippines in 1955, the other in South America and Africa in 1973. The U. S., however, will get only one piddling 65-sec. affair for the rest of the century. Year: 1963. Witness: New England...