Word: uses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obtainable on the new Packard Diesel type airplane motor. We do not know the source of your information but the fact is that while the Diesel engine principle is very old, many problems had to be solved before a suitably light Diesel type motor could be built for aircraft use. These problems were solved by us and in many instances real inventions resulted. Therefore, instead of no patents being obtain able, this Packard engine will be very well protected by patents and there is every reason to believe that we will have real patent control of its many novel...
...point the issue even more, on the day the Casino opened, 93 ordinary citizens were haled to court, fined for eating their lunches on newspapers spread on the grass of their park. Onetime Mayor John Frances ("Red Mike") Hylan, again a candidate for that office, was quick to make use of the political potentialities of the new Casino. "A night club for the 400 in Central Park." roared he over the radio, "would never have been permitted during my administration...
...Stewart, who had known that the endowment was forthcoming, announced last week that he would use it to pay professors and instructors of surgery for half time work, to increase New York University's faculty...
Famed NELA (National Electric Light Association) last week convened at Atlantic City for its 52nd convention and exhibition. There able Matthew S. Sloan, head of New York Edison Co., said that the electric industry could well grant lower rates on current for domestic use, that such rates would result in greater use of vacuum cleaners, of electric irons, clothes washers and other household electric appliances, that rate reductions were always followed by pleasing increases in amounts of current consumed. Delegates also heard Oklahoman J. F. Owens, head of NELA's publicity, concede that there was "food for thought...
...close relations with United Fruit. Minor Keith is its board chairman. And the two companies have a 33⅓% discount agreement by which United Fruit passengers and freight travel on the I. R. C. A. at two-thirds the ordinary cost and I. R. C. A. passengers and freight use United Fruit ships on the same basis...