Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...airlines are one of the most important means of transportation, and the number of accidents on these lines today is smaller than ever before. Those that do occur are due, almost all of them, to the fact that the planes are run on a schedule which requires that they set out at stated intervals, fair weather or foul. The number of such accidents is decreasing year by year, as further advances are made in the invention of such instruments as are helpful to aviators flying in stormy weather...
...quickly annexed the cousin of aristocracy who made love to her while Sam attended a dinner given in his honor by his London agent. The dinner was at a Soho restaurant, and yet: There was a horseshoe table with seats for thirty. Along the table little American flags were set in pots of forget-me-nots. Behind the chairman's table was a portrait of President Coolidge, draped with red, white, and blue bunting, and about the wall−Heaven knows where Hurd could have collected them all−were shields and banners of Yale, Harvard and the University...
...Dine is the murder-case pseudonym of Willard Huntington Wright, art critic and onetime editor of Smart Set (TIME, Sept. 10, PEOPLE.) The Canary Murder Case is, far and away, his best...
...family business in 1928, predicted a billion dollar laundry industry in 1930. Thirty chain store systems showed February 1929 sales increasing 24% over February 1928. Cigaret output last month was half a billion greater than for last February. Copper hit a new high of 24? a pound. Automobile makers set a February record of 466,084 motor cars, more than 4,000 increase over August 1928, previous record month. Pittsburgh steel mills are running at 95% of capacity and March is expected to be a record-breaking month for steel production. Oil production was reduced by 40,000 barrels (week...
...next day (March 26) money opened not at 9%, but at 12%. It rose to 15%, exceeding the previous day's high. Another and a greater selling wave set in−especially in coppers. The amateurs fled even faster than the day before and hundreds who did not flee were sold out, adding to the casualties. And money still rose...