Word: trades
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year-old mother, took a two-story stucco building and filled its walls with windows. "Some of us have not seen much sunshine," he said. Then he took in men he had known -a pardoned murderer, an embezzler, a forger-and let them work on at the trade they had learned in prison, rigging ship models, turning radio cabinets, joining chairs...
...almost a day she was seen no more from land. Her wireless, however, reported her nosing smoothly southward -off Cape Charles, Savannah, Jacksonville, Daytona. Night watchers at Nassau, British Bahamas, thought that they saw her bulk. Then she was a little south of Cuba, then off Jamaica. The trade winds fanned her ahead at a 90 m. p. h. scoot, and at last she, the airship Los Angeles, was at her goal, France Field, Panama Canal Zone. Lieutenant Commander Charles E. Rosendahl had put his airboat across 2,265 miles in 40 hours, her longest non-stop flight since...
...last week President Coolidge himself ruled that Soviet gold exports to the U. S. were a result of trade between the countries, and should be received. Therefore, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon authorized the Assay office to count, test, weigh the bars, the bankers to sell the bars to the Sub-Treasury for a check in dollar denominations, the Mint to coin the bars into quarter-eagles, half-eagles, eagles, double-eagles. Assay office chemists in the annex to the Sub-Treasury building in Wall Street lit furnaces, uncorked acid bottles, adjusted exquisite balances, burned, corroded, measured, weighed bars...
Rayon (artificial silk*) means ray in French. Last week, Courtaulds, Ltd.† world's largest rayon manufacturers, estimated to control 80% of the world's trade, declared a 100% stock dividend, nominally worth ?12,000,000 and a 25% cash dividend, tax free, for the year...
Young sales managers with bright ideas searched through books on mythology for an international trade-mark intelligible to all nations in all languages, for Vacuum oil lubricating supply stations were dotting the earth, even to imperceptible islands of distant seas. The bright young men hit on the roc, huge bird that took Sindbad's baggy pants in its beak and carried him across mountains to drop him into a gully full of diamonds. But here a language difficulty arose. Roc sounds like rock. In German petroleum is rock-oil (Steinöl). Most unfortunately the bird of Persian mythology...