Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Pope Pius XII (see p. 36), then Cardinal Pacelli, visited the U. S. in 1936, he was flown over 4,000 miles in a chartered plane, piloted by Captain Jack O'Brien. Last week Pilot O'Brien reminisced: "Everywhere we flew those three days and four nights...
The designated watchdog of the Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts for 24 years, FTC has had more experience coping with monopoly than any other Government agency, seldom lets a week go by without cracking down on at least one corporate offender. Last week, prefacing a review of FTC's...
By further acquiring trolley lines and elevateds, I. R. T. soon had a monopoly on Manhattan transit. Meanwhile Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. attained a similar monopoly across the river in Brooklyn, though it had no subway then. This cozy set-up has foliated through the years until today New York...
The Metropolitan technicians-Master Mechanic Fred Hosli, Chief Electrician Jacob Buchter, Master of Properties Philip Crispano-work with the very best equipment, but except for child auditors the Siegfried dragon, for example, seems hardly worth the trouble. This beast requires the services of eight men-two inside it, two to...
The first foreigner (except for members of the tiny Dutch colony at Deshima) to live in Japan since the expulsion of the Catholic missionaries in 1638, Harris had no battleships to back him. The State Department left him to shift for himself. The Japanese distinctly did not want him around...