Word: took
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occasion called attention to the fact that Senator Warren, besides being the oldest Senator, had established a new duration record. No man in U. S. history can match his 36½ years of Senate service. It was, however, not yet a non-stop record. Senator Warren "took off" on his first Senate flight on Dec. 1, 1890 as one of Wyoming's first pair of Senators. He was obliged to "land to refuel" politically for two years (1893-95) when a deadlock in the Wyoming legislature on selecting a Senator reused a vacancy. The second Warren flight began March...
...Nebraska's Senator Norris and Democratic-Leader Robinson the bloc constituted a powerful combination of votes virtually the same as had for so long tormented President Hoover with the Export Debenture Plan in the Farm Bill. It took its name from the support it gave last week to a Borah resolution to instruct the Finance Committee to confine tariff revision to the farm schedule. Last week it held informal meetings, laid plans, apportioned among its membership the special study of different schedules for technical contests on the Senate bloc, prepared to scatter through the land to stump against...
...long, white, hard beach were the Yellow Bird and the Green Flash, a Bellanca monoplane with Wright Whirlwind motor which Roger Q. Williams and Lewis E. Yancey planned to fly to Rome. The Yellow Bird was going to Paris. The two planes warmed up simultaneously. The Yellow Bird took off first, her tail drooping unusually. The Green Flash in starting crumpled a wheel and wrecked itself...
...importance of 40-minute freezing lies in the fact that when fish are frozen, icy-crystals form inside them, break down the cell walls and allow flavor-giving juices to escape. The quicker the freezing, the smaller the crystals and the less the breakage. Old time freezing methods took 36 hours; other quick-freezing methods take 100 minutes. Mr. Taylor has cut an hour from the previous record. Thus the inland housewife can buy fish which, though frozen, are still essentially fresh, have the flavor and quality of fish newly caught. The Taylor, Birdseye and other quick-freezing processes have...
...shipping duty-free Fordsons, General American Tank Car Corp. was employing another standard way of scaling tariff walls. This barrier, however, was not U. S. but German. Reluctant to pay the high duties collected in Germany on U. S. goods, the Tank Car company, á la General Motors, took over a German car company and organized it as a subsidiary...