Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the Trustees of Warm Springs Foundation in the East Room of the White House, Rear Admiral Gary T. Grayson presented the President with a check 3 ft. long by 18 in. wide, for $1,003,030.08 - receipts for the President's "birthday balls" last January. The amount was half a million dollars smaller than Warm Springs had confidently hoped for but the President waved the check triumphantly aloft, before handing it to Trustee Arthur Carpenter. "Just for five or ten seconds, Carp," said the President, "I wouldn't trust you longer with it. No danger was there...
...million farms took to the air: 300,000,000 tons of soil billowing through the sky. Housewives in Des Moines could write their names in grime upon their table tops. Aviators had to climb 15,000 ft. to get above the pall. A dust storm 900 mi. wide, 1,500 mi. long swept out of the drought-stricken West. In dust-darkened Chicago excited Board of Trade brokers bid up wheat prices 5? in one day (the maximum), raised the price to 93? a bu.-up 17? in two weeks. That day 6,000 tons of finely divided wheat fields...
...under Heuri's son--the present Eugene Schneider, now sixty-six years old, that the Schneider-Creusot company began to work upon a gigantic, world-wide scale. Its real expansion began with the turn of the contury. Eugene Schneider acquired iron mines in Lorraine and began a program of mill, foundry, and shipyard building at Bordeaux and Toulon. And then, opportunely, the Russo-Japanese War arrived...
Vickers directors are men of wide affairs. Sir Herbert Lawrence, besides being a director of the Bank of Rumania, is also a director of the Sun Insurance Office, Ltd., with which Vickers-Armstrongs had a curious agreement that "if the profits (of Vickers) in any year during the five years ending December 31, 1932, do not amount to $900,000, then a contribution not exceeding $200,000 will be made in each year." Sir Otto Niemeyer, the infant phenomenon of British finance who first entered His Majesty's Treasury at the age of twenty-three, is another Vickers director...
...buildings around the college in under ground tunnels which stretch for a distance of about three miles. It comes from the Cambridge Electric Light Company which is located on Memorial drive, south of Dunster House. The main tunnels of the distribution system are seven feet high and eight feet wide branch tunnels being four or five feet wide. The engineers in charge of the heating can walk all over the College...