Word: sec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record). In time for the party at Wright Field, a brand new Boeing B-17B, first of 26 supercharged versions of the present "fortress" about to be delivered, hurtled from Burbank, Calif, to Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. (2,450 miles) in 9 hr. 14 min. 30 sec., at average speed of 259.398 m.p.h., only two hours slower than the transcontinental record made by Howard Hughes in a racing plane. Finally, a Grumman amphibian flew 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) at 186.094 m.p.h., bettering Italy's world record of 159.8 m.p.h...
...angle of 30°. By common consent, the "message" was a meaningless succession of dots and dashes. Astronomer Fisher and associates figured that if the signal traveled 36,030,000 miles and back at 186,000 mi. a second, the round trip would take 6 min. 28 sec. The key was tapped. For 6 min. 28 sec. everyone waited. Nothing happened. After a brief pause, WOR switched Baldwin off its hookup, Ben Bernie on. A few diehards argued that they had heard something, but officially the result of the experiment was "negative." WOR's Chief Engineer J. R. Poppele...
...House, embodied a protest which he and other eminent legalists, in & out of the American Bar Association, have been making since long before the New Deal: that the administrative departments and independent agencies of the Government (notoriously the Federal Trade Commission in Republican days, the NLRB and SEC more lately) have compiled vast tomes of offhand, capricious rulings which have the force of law and from which there is no clear recourse...
...could market power 35% cheaper than TVA was doing. Dave Lilienthal only grinned. Willkie offered to sell C. & S. Tennessee Valley properties at "any reasonable figure." Dave Lilienthal turned down the offer. Last fall, before a Congressional committee investigating TVA, daring Wendell Willkie offered to sell at any price SEC would set. The offer was not accepted but negotiations were quietly resumed between C. & S. and Lilienthal. Last week's announcement by Dave Lilienthal drew the curtain, perhaps permanently, on out-loud haggling over power...
...answer to SEC's demand that Wall Street set up brokerage banks to hold all the cash and securities of brokers' customers, the New York Stock Exchange last fortnight set up a four-man committee to formulate a plan. Chosen to head it last week was Roswell Magill, father of the New Deal's 1938 Tax Bill, Under Secretary of the Treasury from early 1937 till last year when he resigned to return to his Manhattan law practice and Columbia teaching...