Word: tried
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aircraft plant at Dearborn, Mich, is shut down except for repair work on planes now in operation. From that plant, which produced 300 tri-motors at $50,000 each for the past five years, only four new ships have emerged since Jan. 1. Prospects for new orders were slim because 1) airline expansion has ceased at least for the present; 2) big operators are abandoning Fords in favor of planes made by allied builders; 3) some operators believe that the Ford, basically unchanged since 1927, is obsolete...
...build a power transmission line from Hoover Dam. A Miami citizen sought $12,000,000 to build a highway bridge from the mainland to Key West. New York's crafty Mayor Walker prepared for a grandstand demand for R. F. C. funds to finish his $30,000,000 Tri-Borough Bridge (Manhattan-Queens-Bronx...
Members of National Electric Light Association, convening in Atlantic City last week, heard Chairman Floyd Leslie Carlisle of Consolidated Gas stoutly define a well-managed holding company as a "potent instrument for the public welfare." Because of the Insull and Tri-Utilities collapses as well as the Kreuger scandal, the holding company theory at present is the subject of many an attack, many an inquiry. Last week from the Public Service Commission of the State of New York, the holding company theory received its 'second setback in three weeks...
Trusts. Consolidation in the investment trust field took another spurt last week. Tri-Continental Corp., sponsored by J. & W. Seligman & Co., bought control of Broad Street Management Corp. which carries with it control of Capital Administration Co., Ltd., an investment trust listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and a management contract with Broad Street Investment Co. The purchases swell the net assets controlled by Tri-Continental to over $40,000,000 by adding...
...each of the outboard motors of a tri-motor plane is mounted a convex mirror permitting the pilot to see the whirling propeller of the centre engine, through the blades of the outboard propeller. If the centre "prop" seems to rotate in one direction or the other, the pilot knows that it is whirling faster or slower than the outboard. He manipulates his throttles until the centre "prop" seems to stand stockstill. When both outboards have been tuned with the centre, the "waah-waah" ceases...