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...Lindbergh Line" and added for good measure, "TWA First." For eight years nearly every page of the company's publicity has prominently mentioned "The Lindbergh Line" while in most of its 44 ticket offices the helmeted head of Colonel Lindbergh looked confidently skyward...
...long, wide enough (108 ft.) for eight traffic lanes, rests its 18,400,000-Ib. on 32 caissons, sunk to bedrock, 102 ft. below water level. It is so delicately balanced that no more than two 100 h.p. motors are required to lift its huge jaws skyward for occasional vessels to pass in & out. of the Chicago River. Some Chicagoans were disconcerted by the two right angle turns at its southern approach, with only a four-lane highway on Randolph Street for traffic midcity bound. And some complained of bottlenecks getting off & on the main outer artery north & south...
...utility, and public resentment of its monopoly closely paralleled the later hatred of the Power Trust. But Mr. Rockefeller was never accused of writing up assets or watering stock. When the "splinters" of old Standard Oil filtered into the stockmarket after the Trust's dissolution, they were whooped skyward on the sudden realization that the value of the operating properties had been understated by hundreds of millions. As an efficient, consistent money-making machine, the Standard Oil organization has never had a peer...
...stab of flame gashed the airship's flank near the port stern gondola. So swiftly that to many it seemed instantaneous the flame engulfed the whole rear half of the ship. There was a muffled, booming WHOOSH and a huge belch of white fire and smoke mushroomed skyward...
...million year old fossiliferous monstrosity was uncovered by a recent Harvard expedition in the "red-beds" of Northwest Texas. On inspection, one must try to visualize a gargantuan turtle with a vertical and flattened rather than a horizontal and curved shell. A series of long bony vertebrae soar skyward in transcending gothic splendor...