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...universal prediction at the outset of 1930 was that construction, long low, would zoom under the impetus of cheap money and the many Hoover-pleas. Last week were published figures indicating that the long-awaited zoom will have to be a terrific one the next six months if 1930 is to be known as a good construction year...
...Manhattan in ten hours. Scheduled transport planes fly the distance in four hours. Last week Dale ("Red") Jackson, co-holder of the world's refueling flight record (TIME, Aug. 12) took off from Montreal in a Travel Air "Mystery" ship (TIME, Feb. 24), pulled up in a triumphant zoom over New York's Curtiss Airport (Valley Stream, L. I.) 1 hr. 55 min. later, a record. The "Mystery" ship's average speed had been...
...constructive interest'' was the volume of trading and the lateness of the ticker, a condition apt to cause confusion, violent moves. To abate this, new tickers are being installed, may be ready in 60 days. Instead of the present 260 characters a minute, the new ones will zoom by with 700. Electric quotation boards are also being put into service. The first was placed in the uptown office of Sutro & Co. last May. There are now 65 in Manhattan, and some will be installed in Western offices soon...
...plane to the field, left his motor open. Two observers watched him, amazed that he was going into a needless power dive. Below him, in a little one-story observation shack, with a platform on the roof, should have been the night-watchman. Pridham dove his Pitcairn to zoom over it. The observers presumed that he intended to rouse the watchman with the snarl of his motor. He misjudged his distance by inches. His wing ripped off the platform, the plane out of control hurtled about 100 feet to the Connecticut River and landed in four feet of water, upside...
...yachtsmen (General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan recently bought one for his new yacht, the René) because the hardware and woodwork of each one is contrived to harmonize with that of the mother ship. Of every 100 Chris-Craft boats turned out in Algonac, 13 are destined to zoom over foreign waters. Scandinavians use them as a means of commuting among the fjords and inlets. Many are shipped to Australia. The only practical means of travel in much of the South American tropical zone is the network of jungle waterways. Colombian explorers and the Ford rubber plantations in Brazil...