Word: tryed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Oakland, Calif, he zipped to Fairbanks, Alaska in less than 14 hours. Following his $100,000 high-speed Lockheed was an old tri-motor Ford from which he planned to refuel in midair, thus tripling his range and obviating many landings in Alaskan mud, on ice hummocks or through fog, all deadly Arctic dangers. For 17 days, parka clad and living on seal meat and 18-month old eggs, Jimmie Mattern scoured the seacoast, the area flanking the 48th meridian and Alaska's mountainous interior. Because his refueling plane crashed just before reaching its destination...
North Beach Airport's present 105 acres lie on the south shore of Flushing Bay, eight miles by road northeast of Grand Central Station (in whose shadow most commercial airlines have their midcity passenger terminals), across the East River and the new Tri-Borough Bridge. Although $2,358,000 went into the land, runways, hangars, seaplane ramps, beacons & facilities for servicing visiting planes when Curtiss-Wright built North Beach in 1929. only schools, private flyers and taxis patronized the field. No line made it a terminus. In 1934 the City of New York agreed...
...last week's end, C. I. Organizers met trouble that they did not expect. For Sunday they had scheduled a mass meeting at small Picher, Okla. in the midst of a rich lead & zinc region to talk tough miners into deserting the independent Tri-State Metal, Mine & Smelter Workers' Union. Before the meeting could assemble a mob of 4,000 Tri-Staters marched in armed with pick handles, clouted every C. I. O. man they could find in town, wrecked the meeting hall. Looking for more C. I. O. meetings, the mob crossed the Kansas line. One section...
Trusts have hitherto objected strenuously to comparisons with stockmarket averages. This year Tri-Continental was only too glad to point out that in comparison with an average gain of 32% for general management trusts, Standard Statistics' 90-stock average rose only 27.9% the New York Times' 50-stock average only 21.1%, the 782 common stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange about 25%. The Dow-Jones averages showed a 24.5% rise in industrials, 32.5% in rails, 17.9% in utilities. Actually the comparison was even more favorable to the trusts because part of their assets were in cash...
Mutual type trusts did a little less well than general investment companies, Tri-Continental's average for 22 mutuals being 30.9%. A list of 15 specialized trusts with portfolios concentrated in one industry varied widely in performance, showed a gain on the average of only...