Word: tin-can
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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Down at No. 23 Wall Street, Manhattan, one Thomas W. Lamont is accustomed to put in a good 8-or 9-hour day working at figures. Now a government, now a railroad, now a tin-can factory must have its figures overhauled and set again on its financial way rejoicing. There is, little time for political speculation in the high philosophic sense...
...reached the astonishing height of 350 feet, to the present days, when parachutists can drop safely from an altitude of 21,000 feet, and gasoline can be transferred from one plane to the other high above the earth. How could Farman, who, in 1903 filled his tank with a tin-can, have realized that twenty years later 2000 gallons of gasoline would be the average lead of an army air-plane...