Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington he is rather a lonely man with few close friends. He lives at the Mayflower Hotel, keeps no car. (In Missouri he drives a Buick.) He works from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., returns to his office about four evenings a week "to catch up on him-self...
...days later the mysterious underworld "grapevine" had carried news of Dannemora's riot to the state prison in Auburn. Unlike Dannemora this institution?with convict self-government and liberal policy?has often been called "the prison without walls." Built to hold 1,350, it was last week overcrowded with 1,818 malcontents. On Sunday the men, numbering 1,700, led by a trusty, walked to the yard for an outing. At the trusty's knock at the "key room," a guard opened the door, was immediately kicked senseless. After shooting another guard, stealing his keys, the convicts seized guns from...
...Sikorsky was in Europe, last week when the deal was announced. If any one had told him six years ago when, a Russian immigrant, he founded his U. S. company, that in 1929 it would bring $2,500,000, he would have believed it. He has never lacked self-confidence. In Tsarist days he was his country's foremost aeronautical engineer. He designed the world's first successful multimotored plane (a four-motor job, 1913), flew the first multimotored seaplane (his own design, 1914), enabled the Russians to make the first heavy air bombardments...
...half wing of a sesquiplane. The great structure was the mighty enlargement of Dr. Claude Dornier's Super-Whale, which he had been secretly building for two and a half years. Its flying capacity was 100 passengers. It was going on its trial runs. Dr. Dornier, usually self-contained and impassive, stood nervously on the lake shore, watch in hand. He gave a signal. The crew of 16 took their posts, the twelve motors thundered. The enormous flying boat slid out with ponderous ease across the glassy water after taxiing about for practice, the helmsman circled back for another...
Chief witness at the meeting was Packard's Alvan Macauley. Cool, self-possessed, quiet, sure of his facts & figures, he read from a typewritten manuscript. To what he said few exceptions were taken. First he talked of U. S. Motors, the whole huge industry. More than 4,000,000 U. S. inhabitants derive an automotive livelihood. The industry consumes 18% of U. S. steel production, 85% of rubber, 74% of plate glass, 60% of leather upholstery, 18% of hardwood lumber, 27% of aluminum, 14% of copper. Last year it was third largest user of railroad equipment, shipped nearly one million...