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...19th Route Army (TIME, Feb. 22, 1932). Last week on the Olympic he steamed into Manhattan and Chinatown went wild. Rich merchants had hired a suite for their hero at the tall-towered Waldorf-Astoria. They sent three planes with Chinese pilots roaring down the bay to dip and zoom in welcome. As the Olympic drew in, 4,000 jubilant celestials jammed the pier and Chinese drivers of a motorcade of 200 cars pushed down the buttons of their horns, kept them down...
Never before has the world been so thoroughly grubbed for gold. College-trained engineers zoom across the northlands looking for it. Oldtime prospectors plod the gullies of the Western States. Abandoned shafts have been reopened and assayed. Throughout the world jobless men have taken picks & pans and made off for the hills. Some of them have struck rich pay dirt. In Australia, Ecuador, the Rand, Chile, the Philippines, Mexico and Venezuela their luck has started minor gold rushes in recent months, mostly abortive...
After attempting to take off from a short dirt road which cut diagonally across the airport, he headed his low-wing monoplane down the field, less than 700 ft. in length. Oozy ground sucked at the wheels, kept him from attaining the 70 m. p. h. required to zoom off. Toward the end of the runway, going about 50 m. p. h., the ship bounced off a low mound, cut through heavy undergrowth, somersaulted over a stone wall. Hawks cut the motor in time, saved himself from cremation...
...sales in 1931. Foreign sales for 1930 decreased 44%, compared to a domestic drop of 30% in new car registration, and many companies must consider foreign factories to escape tariff walls. Yet the industry as a whole is rich, in strong hands. Most companies are in a position to zoom again when the public gives the signal.* For this reason all U. S. Industry last week awaited reports on the reception of the New York Automobile Show...
Badges worn by a smalltown delegation of realtors on their way to their state convention were lettered: WE ZOOM FOR ZENITH. And a banner proclaimed: ZENITH THE ZIP CITY-ZEAL, ZEST AND ZOWIE! Heading the delegation was one George Follansbee Babbitt ". . . 46 years old now, in April, 1920, and he made nothing in particular, neither butter nor shoes nor poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay. His face was babyish . . . despite his wrinkles and the red spectacle-dents on the slopes of his nose...