Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge, at Hoover Field, christened a big airplane Christopher Columbus. If she noticed that it was a Ford plane, she said nothing. It was supposed to have been a Fokker plane, the first of the Pan-American Airways Transport system, soon to open routes from Miami to Nassau, Havana, Camagüey (Cuba), San Juan, P. R. and, later, Mexico, Central and South America. The Fokker ship meant to have been christened Christopher Columbus had been cracked up the day before. The substitute Ford was leased...
...Federal Reserve banking system stabilizes the U. S. money market. Might not some form of "reserve" be set up to stabilize the U. S. labor market-a national job reserve...
...example a $1,800,000 contract was let, last week, to the enterprising Automatic Electric Company of Chicago, which, within the next twelvemonth, will install a U. S. dial-telephone system in the Capital of the Nationalist State, the ancient Chinese city of Nanking, founded even before...
...motored plane was a system of double planes, resembling box-kites fastened one to another in the general shape of the letter T. A very light and powerful petrol motor drove two light propellers at high speed. The pilot sat at the juncture of the T. On its first recognized flight (in France) that Santos-Dumont T-plane flew 220 metres in 21 seconds...
...duty of the preparatory schools is to prepare men for college. On the academic side this purpose is largely perverted by the attitude that sets up the entrance examinations as an end rather than a means. To push students onward to the end a system of extensive academic review occupies the final third of the preparatory school year. Months of dummy scrimmage against ghosts of past college entrance tests, while valuable in the emergency of the moment, are poor preparation for college courses where examinations are more incidental, and individual initiative must replace careful management by instructors...