Word: units
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Join the Navy and see the world" became more than a slogan to 89 members of the University Unit, Naval Reserve Training Corps, this summer, when they went on the annual training cruise down the Atlantic coast to Cuba and back...
Havana, with the attractions of Sloppy Joe's cuba libres and bacardis, and with a dance thrown for the Unit at the Biltmore Yacht Club, was the most popular stop on route. Every man had guest privileges at the Havana clubs, through special dispensation of the U. S. Ambassador...
...ships used are part of the Atlantic Coast Training Fleet, and were manned by regular seamen and marines. The Unit served as reserve officers, practically running the destroyer by themselves...
...Malcolm Campbell, 54, Britain's famed speedboat racer (141.74 miles per hour on Lake Coniston, England) and holder of the world's automobile speed record when it was 301 m.p.h. (present record: 368.85), who organized a motorcycle militia unit of 162 men last March, reported for service at Britain's War Office on a motorcycle...
...machine tool industry-which makes the machines with which other industries make goods-is no monster economic unit. In a peak year it may gross $200,000,000, about as much as the automobile industry (cars and trucks) grosses in an average month. But it is a key unit -when other industries stagnate it stagnates, when others expand it is busy. For ten years the machine tool industry has lived mainly on orders from 1) the automobile industry; 2) foreign buyers (British, Japanese, German) who wanted to make goods at home instead of buying from the U. S.; 3) more...