Word: unite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modern monoplane, whose new pressure cabin is carrying military and commercial aviation into the substratosphere; Capt. Carl J. Crane, whose radio-controlled plane has completed 160 landings without a hand on the controls; Major Edwin R. Page, in whose laboratories engines with 3,000 h.p. in a single unit soon will be on test; Major George W. Goddard, whose color cameras capable of making pictures at 15,000 ft. altitude and 200 m.p.h. are revolutionizing air reconnaissance. In the army arsenal at Springfield, Mass., is Consulting Engineer John C. Garand, whose semiautomatic, 30-round-per-minute shoulder rifle will...
...surprise he also discovered that among his employes were about 3,000 men who carried pistols-most of whom were sorry pistol shots. So in 1935 Mr. Morgenthau instituted year-round pistol practice, taught by Coast Guard cracks, for all armed agents of his Customs Bureau, Alcohol Tax Unit, Bureau of Narcotics, White House Police, Bureau of the Mint, Secret Service, Bureau of Internal Revenue, Uniformed Force of the Secret Service, Public Health Service. He put up a handsome silver Morgenthau Trophy and several other prizes for annual competition...
...year, the merchants predicted that the total volume of business in 1938 would equal that of the banner year 1937, when $200,000,000 was spent in the U. S. for instruments, instruction and upkeep. Most popular instrument as last year: the accordion. Outstanding trend in the trade, although unit sales have been small, is in the field in which the Hammond electric "organ" pioneered...
...operatic production, known among operagoers as the ''star system," has its advantages. It simplifies and speeds up rehearsal, and allows the public to hear a great number and variety of fine singers. But it also has disadvantages. Under it, an operatic cast is seldom rehearsed as a unit. Result: Operatic acting and staging, as a rule, is slipshod, routine, uncoordinated...
...system to the whole company. As the only major executive in the country with leaf-buying, manufacturing and selling experience he was a logical choice as McKitterick's successor. And as the cool, careful, level-headed type he was well fitted to guide Philip Morris from a small unit with big ideas to actual bigness...