Word: steams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...giving an "appearance of great energy" or really meant business. Admiralty orders to British warships were couched in terms which might mean anything. The effect of these orders is to bring about 200,000 tons of British war boats into waters near Gibraltar, ostensibly "on their way" past Gibraltar steaming to distant ports. The flagship Queen Elizabeth (33,000 tons) carried Admiral Sir Alfred Dudley Pound from Malta to Gibraltar last week and is scheduled to steam back this week to Malta. The famed Hood (46,200 tons) and Repulse (37,400 tons) were already at Gibraltar and scheduled...
This provoked several reactions. New York's Senator Royal Samuel Copeland, who loves to blow off steam on airplane safety but rarely does anything about it, puffed as usual, promised an investigation. The Department of Commerce called a "private" conference of airline operators and Federal officials...
...gratis on many a country hillside. Skiers shot off the slide in jumps about one-half as long as good outdoor jumps, gave demonstrations of rudimentary turns. Department store models tried and failed to live up to their skiing costumes. Fancy skaters whirled on the miniature rinks. In the steam-heated cellar below the snowdrifts, agents for innumerable winter resorts and ski-supply houses set up booths. Bug-eyed at these goings-on, spectators reserved special awe for the two items of the wintersports show that really explained why it was there. One was a snow machine, the other Hannes...
...directors and their families, biggest stockholder being President McConnell. A tall, spare onetime mining engineer, President McConnell was born 47 years ago in Colorado's Uncompahgre Valley, early stamping ground of Jack Dempsey, Harold Lloyd and Billy the Kid. His first practical mining experience was on a steam shovel on a copper property at $4 per day. Even in high school, however, he was taking long shots on penny mining stocks with notable success. In 1921 he went East to unload a big stock of gasoline owned by a pinched oil company, stayed to form his own New York...
...broken ankle, Gene Rose with a bone bruise, Tony Sarausky with a concussion. Darkness came on so early in the afternoon that the second half was played under flood lights. In a cold, steady rain, the game remained partially concealed from 18,000 spectators by a cloud of steam arising from the players' bodies. When the lights went off and the mist cleared, Boston had won, 14-to-0, with one touch down on Donald Irwin's line plunge climaxing a 38-yd. march, one on Cliff Battles...