Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hammer or air-compressor on Memorial Drive below Dunster House yesterday afternoon, the suspicion dawned, especially on the minds of Dunstermen, that the Strauss Hall feed had assumed new proportions. Such was not the case, however, for although water is the subject out into the river, in order to speed the drainage of storm and surface the drainage of storm and surface water from the vicinity...
Moseley is still the leading candidate for starting honors at the attacking position at left half, but the continued use of Adzigian means that he will see a good deal of service if his early performance in the battle with the Elis lives up to expectations. Parquette, like the speed merchant Fergie Locke, will probably be held for use as a specialist and may enter the game as either a quarterback or left half...
...days later the record-breaking Douglas was scheduled to make a dawn-to-dusk round-trip flight between Newark and Lines' new Miami to high-speed inaugurate schedules Eastern with Air Douglas equipment. Pioneered by TWA, which put up $140,000 for its development, the Douglas Luxury Airliner is now used by Eastern Air. General Air Lines, American Airlines, Pan American Airways, Royal Dutch Air Lines, Deutsche Lufthansa, Swissair, Spanish Airlines and Austrian Airlines...
...real fame did not come until this year when his big, all-metal, high-speed, 14-passenger transports began replacing other older makes on the nation's airways. His factory at Santa Monica, which employed 600 hands a year ago, today has 3,200. So great is the world's admiration for the Douglas Airliner that even when Douglas Aircraft Co. omitted its semi-annual dividend last February-cash was needed to finance unfilled orders-the stock strengthened its position in Wall Street...
...practical monopoly on railroad comfort.* The other is Pullman Car & Manufacturing Corp., which is one of the biggest U. S. makers of railroad rolling stock. Lately Pullman's equipment business has fattened on railroad orders financed with PWA loans. It built Union Pacific's two streamlined, high-speed trains, has orders booked for two more. From Pullman, Illinois Central also wants an experimental five-car train...