Word: stubs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...autogiro which he flew last week is his latest model. The fuselage is 16 ft. long, flat and rather wide. Stub wings with upturned tips extend from each side of the fuselage. The tail structure is 8 ft. wide and has boxed double rudders, double fins, an upper (elevator) and a lower (stabilizer) tail plane. When the tail planes are deflected they meet and act as a single plane. The tractor propeller is 81 in. over all and operated by a Genet-Major five-cylinder radial motor which develops 100 h.p. at 2,400 r.p.m...
...takes five seconds to light a cigaret, ten seconds for a cigar or pipe, on the average. A match burns one-half inch from its tip in ten seconds. If the stub were fireproof many a careless fire would be prevented...
...three men and women throw their cigarets away when the butts are between one and one and a half inches long. If the stub could be fireproofed, other careless fires could be prevented...
...roses from Pompton Plains. Commissioner Voorhis was elected a member of the young Democrats club. For the first time in his life he cried in public. Police Commissioner Whalen joshed him because the police department had no Voorhis fingerprints, added: "I thought that in 100 years, any man would stub his toe at least once...
When Charles Edwin Mitchell, head of Manhattan's National City Bank, was a young man he copied orders for the Western Electric Co. Making several carbon copies legible through the medium of a stub pen required a firm, indeed a strong, hand. Strong-handed, Banker Mitchell is also strongwilled. Last week he halted a collapse on the Stock Market, "slapped the Federal Reserve Board squarely in the face," heard Virginia's Senator Glass demand his resignation from the directorate of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, announced the absorption of Farmers' Loan & Trust...