Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...library offers unusual opportunities for such advanced study through its collection of current business periodicals. About 500 publications of this type are being received daily and monthly. These include such common and valuable sources of business information as the "New York Times", the "Wall Street Journal", and the weekly "Commercial and Financial Chronicle". But many of the publications, such as "American Fertilizer", are valuable in the study of specific phases of business which is devoted exclusively to the commercial fertilizer industry; "La Hacienda", published for the purpose of disseminating practical knowledge on agriculture, live stock and commerce to Spanish...
...guests have come. I believe that a boy of seventeen or eighteen, who has pretty well finished his preparation for the university, who is mature, alert and reliable, could to very great advantage spend a year in Europe or the Orient. And I also believe that the same type of boy from foreign countries could derive great socializing advantages from a year spent under the best American conditions...
Present plans are to build in this country a rigid dirigible of the Schütte Lanz type. Helium will be used as the elevating gas, because it is non-inflammable. The ship will carry 50 passengers, and is scheduled to leave New York at six in the morning and arrive in Chicago early next morning, the passengers sleeping en route. The Government is to give full co-operation because of the military advantage of developing commercial aviation in this country...
...hasn't a great voice. She can act, of course, especially in those roles that call for the robust, voluptuous type. But it is mainly that mystical something that passes across the footlights and makes the audience a collection of cheerers-personality. Caruso had it, and it did as much toward his success as his miracles of voice and phrasing. The crowd liked Caruso. He made friends with them right away...
...full weight of the seaplane, with full crew, fuel and two torpedoes, each weighing 3,000 pounds, will be approximately 9½ tons. The torpedoes will be carried under the lower wings and discharged by means of a new type of releasing gear...