Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stronger Sinclair. Apparently planning tremendous expansion, Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp. last week girded itself for corporate frays. First of the preparatory steps was announcement that stock-holders of Sinclair, joint owner with Standard Oil Co. of Indiana of Sinclair Pipe Line Co. and Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Co., will vote on proposed sale to Standard of its interest in these two companies for $72,500,000 cash. Significant was the comment of Chairman Harry Ford Sinclair regarding this deal: "Conditions with respect to the position of your company have radically changed since the partnership with the Standard Oil Company...
...Five years after his reported death, she married her second husband. But Mr. Pim says he has just come from Australia on the same boat with her first. George is horrorstruck. His love for Olivia is solid and settled, but his fear of the Law and the County is stronger. Things look bad for Olivia. Mr. Pim is recalled by an irate and agitated family council, and pressed for further particulars. Says he: "Why, the man died at Marseilles, I thought I told you about his getting a fishbone stuck in his throat; that was the whole point...
...faster and stronger airplanes become, the further they can fly and the heavier the weather they can endure, the more obviously necessary to them becomes Radio. It was not insignificant that the first plane to cross the Atlantic westward on a nonstop flight from one airport to another, found its way through Newfoundland fogs and magnetic disturbances almost entirely by radio. The Bremen, only plane preceding the Southern Cross, had no radio and was lucky to strike land where it did at Greenley Island...
...fireworks manufacturers called Science to their aid to construct safer, saner displays. Sparklers of aluminum bronze which throws off incandescent but quick-cooling particles as it burns, were invented for children. Crackers were reduced in size (largest is now 5 in.), then fuses were improved. Skyrockets were made with stronger sticks, roman candles with thicker handles...
...stability of the U. S. Government of the revolutionary doctrines favored by this 0.13% of the nation's electorate. The first week's hearings began with a lesson in the generalities of Communism and concluded with an adroit plea from the American Federation of Labor for stronger Unionism to combat U. S. S. R. theories. No "Reds" were yet hunted by name and deed...