Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry Ford watched pensively, last week, while a line of motor cars no bigger than bathtubs moved briskly toward completion in the huge, humming plant of Morris Motors Ltd., at Cowley, England...
...avoided denying to newsgatherers that he came to sound out Italians upon possible future modification of the Dawes Plan. He is known to favor assigning to Germany a definite total reparations debt in place of her present sliding commitments to the Allies. Moreover Agent Gilbert is thought to lean toward the scheme for raising money to fund most of the German indebtedness in cash, by placing on the market huge blocs of German railway & industrial bonds now held by the Reparations Commission...
...Marseilles, they paused while their plane was being refuelled before starting for Paris. They flew, over the dreamy provinces of France, toward a last great city. There, in the late afternoon, a huge crowd was waiting for them. Their plane drifted to the field at Le Bourget, a weary metal bird, singing a slow song. The wheels rolled over the ground quickly, then slowly. The wheels stopped, the propeller stopped its slow spinning, and the two men got out of their airplane. Both of them were smiling. "Costes!'' yelled the people in the crowd. "Lebrix . . . Lebrix. . . ." Then they...
Friday afternoon they headed into a gale. Ice began to cover their vessel; wind heaved it roughly about. Darkness was coming on; their benzine was almost gone. So they dipped in a cautious glide toward the earth's surface, not knowing whether below the fog's bed was land or water...
...before their marriage, last October, she had taken the plane up above London to establish an altitude record of 19,000 feet. A few weeks later, she had kissed Sir James goodbye, embarked for Cape Town, South Africa, whence she quickly began to fly across all Africa toward London. If she succeeded, a new female flight record would be hers, but a rival, an "other woman" loomed...