Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wall Street whispered that I. T. & T. was licked, Wall Street did not know Sosthenes Behn. To his shrewd daring and persistent battling I. T. & T. owed its spectacular soar to success. He was now to prove himself a bad-weather pilot of extraordinary ability. He hacked expenses, pruned salaries, wrote down assets. With his able brother, Hernand, he worked furiously to increase the efficiency of Mackay-Postal, built five new radio stations on the Atlantic Coast alone. When the storm began to clear it was apparent that Sosthenes Behn had not only braced his towering electrical companies to stand...
...Weather forecasts justified the takeoff...
Four observatories, Harvard, Ann Arbor, Yorkes, and Alleghony, will train their telescopes on Arcturus Saturday and, in the event that it is clear weather, will send its light to Chicago to open the World's Fair at exactly 9 o'clock Eastern Standard Time...
...wooden laths. The apron trails in the water from the steamer's stern. A seaplane or amphibian alighting at the station taxies up the apron to be hoisted aboard- apron and all. For taking off there are catapults on the Westphalen's deck. Also she provides radio, weather forecasting paraphernalia, fuel etc. The Westphalen was chartered by Germany's Lufthansa, which hopes to beat both France and Italy in the race for the first heavier-than-air service to South America. If successful. Lufthansa will co-ordinate the schedules of Dornier flying boats with the sailings...
...Matasnillos the Spaniards stampeded 1,500 bulls against the buccaneers: Morgan's men indulged in no matadorean antics, routed the bulls with a musket volley. Morgan's only serious repulse, says Biographer Roberts, was after the taking of Panama, when one of the beauteous captives caught his weather eye. He laid siege to her virtue by attrition and guile, but did not carry her, buccaneer-like, by storm. When she held out longer than his patience, he sent her back to her people...