Word: tails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tribune piled up more profits than ever in its highly prosperous career. Captain Patterson, taking a hint from Lord Northcliffe ("New York's simply begging for a picture newspaper"), decided that the bulldog needed a tail. He started the New York Daily News, gum-chewer's sheetlet, which began to wag at a great rate. In three years its circulation was 400,000. "When it reaches a million," said Mr. Patterson, "I shall go to New York for good...
...York to administer the affairs of the News and Liberty. Colonel McCormick will stay in Chicago and manage the Tribune and the paper mills." Where two men had stood together to manage one paper, they must stand apart to manage three. And the deduction? "The bulldog's tail," said reasoners, "is making a million wags...
...tail, nothing less...
...train took their horses. Sportsmanship offered them a dubious chance. They took it, struck in their spurs, and dashed straight down the ties toward the culvert's end while the train with brakes screaming, rushed up behind them, closer, closer and then -just as the last cropped tail twitched out of its path-roared...
...Mitchel Field, L. I., a new anti-stalling device to prevent accidents to beginners who frequently come to a speedy end by turning the nose of their plane up so that the engine stalls and they go down in a tail spin, was demonstrated last week. A flyer took the air, put his plane at a dangerous angle, lifted his hands above his head, and let the automatic safety device restore the plane to an even keel...