Word: tow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...financial rocks by the fair-weather crew of heirs and advisers who had steered it since the death in 1932 of scroogy old Captain Robert Dollar, the round-the-world Dollar Steamship Line was taken in tow last August by the Maritime Commission. Of the $7,000,000 in subsidy and repair and working-capital loans then allotted, $4,000,000 was last week available, $2,000,000 of it earmarked for bringing the fleet up to snuff...
Transportation tie-ups caused by the storm delayed delivery of steel and other materials for the arena now being built by the Boston Skating Club, Coach Hodder had planned to use it for tow-hour daily practice periods before the opening encounter with Boston University on December 20. Now it seems as if he will have to use the downtown Arena again...
Down from the hills with the New Hampshire cross-country team in tow, Dartmouth Varsity and Freshman harriers and booters will this afternoon face the Crimson, with a triangular race scheduled for 2:30 o'clock and the soccer games at the same time on the Business School field...
...season's end. So that the grasshoppers will take readily to the fare, it is mixed with sawdust and water or molasses, flung over infested fields from buckets, or spread from barrels by whirling disks which the farmers rig on the rear axles of old automobiles and tow over the fields...
What I consider more important than the new record is the significant fact that this was the first distance soaring flight in America made from winch tow in level country...