Word: traveling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steel colleagues told him he could run his building as high as he pleased. Their structural steel could stand any strain. The elevator men told him, however, not to go above 150 stories (2,000 feet high), because to travel higher would require too heavy elevator cables and because the cars would be required to travel more than 1,500 feet a minute. Although mine elevators travel faster than that, higher speeds bother the human ear drums, and passengers in commercial buildings would not endure discomfort. At present fastest buildings elevators go 750 feet a minute. So Mr. Kingston drew...
...these greatly increasing profits are due largely to the company's electrical subsidiaries and their prospects. Friends of Mr. Porter know that he was born in the largest house in Washington Square, Manhattan, that his golf is poor, his marksmanship good, that he likes to fish, loves to travel. Members of the Engineering Foundation know that he was elected to its chairmanship not because he looms as a potent public utility tycoon but because he is an able mining engineer. In 1894 with Edwin Nash Sanderson, he formed the highly successful consulting engineering firm of Sanderson & Porter, today consulting...
...only previous recipients of the Priestley Medal have been the late President Ira Remsen of Johns Hopkins and the late Provost Edgar Fahs Smith of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Garvan could not travel to Minneapolis from Manhattan because "three years ago I broke down. Some say that breakdown was the result of my endeavors to establish independent and sufficient chemical education, chemical research and chemical industries in America. . . ." This apology and the rest of Mr. Garvan's "random thoughts of a lay chemist," Professor Julius Oscar Stieglitz of the University of Chicago read for absent Mr. Garvan...
...risk, soft shoulders; it rests with the Gods just when the tortuous stream of steaming tar that winds its devious way about the yard may come of age and sink back into that desirable state of intractable resistance. The new "Route 208" or the recommended Socony medium of travel between Widener and wherever you intend to go, represents a new era in the development of the historic old yard; a graceful bow to the commercialism of the present day in the form of laundry, pressing and cleaning, delivery wagons of all sizes and descriptions, purring furniture vans, and spitting remnants...
...Dominions, ended at Friedrichshafen last week, when the Graf Zeppelin snuggled into her home schuppen (hangar). "Speaking frankly," said Dr. Hugo Eckener (in Manhattan last week), "the Graf Zeppelin's voyage around the world was to demonstrate the expediency of her mode of travel, to intensify public interest and to get financial support for the construction of the ideal Zeppelin which we know how to build." The trip served its purpose. It led last week to banker negotiations to provide Dr. Eckener with money for the construction of four more Zeppelins...