Word: channelize
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...into the whole drama may be attributed to Director Shumlin. As the fleshy manufacturer, bluffing his way through a merger, Siegfried Rumann is convincingly brutal. He looks and performs not unlike Emil Jannings. He was an officer in the German army during the War, was wounded, acted in The Channel Road, has sung in Manhattan beer halls for a living. The stenographer is played by Hortense Alden (Lysistrata), an ingratiating person with an attractive, chirrupy voice. Eugenie Leontovich, a beautiful lady who came to the U. S. from Russia to dance, turns in an extraordinary piece of acting...
...fans. First tunnel to require a new type of ventilation was the 8,463-ft. commuter-used Holland.† For years Engineer Ole Singstad, assisted by the U. S. Bureau of Mines and Illinois and Yale universities, studied to perfect a suitable system. Now air is pumped into a channel under the roadbed, let into the tunnel proper through slots at the curbs, pumped out through a channel above the ceiling. Thus no longitudinal draft (a fire and health danger) is created. Engineer George A. Posey adapted Mr. Singstad's method to his 3,545-ft. Oakland Tube...
...southern Sierra. Where the oxcart went, Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown has decreed, there shall the commercial airplane first go-until men learn to travel through the air as safely and economically as they can move on earth. Result: migratory lines Nos. 2 & 3, plus a third "natural channel" across the flat south and lower southwest, have formed the bases for charted airways...
...House of Lords.) Down on their knees in the Parish Church at Sandringham went Their Majesties, prayed feelingly for the 47 dead. "I am horrified," telegraphed George V to Mr. MacDonald, ". . . national disaster . . . serious loss . . . including Lord Thompson, my Air Minister." Among the first to hurry across the channel to the scene was the Prince of Wales. British reporters, besieging Henry Ford on his return from Germany (see p. 18), found him taciturn, truculently unwilling to be interviewed-until they told him about the disaster of which he had not heard. Shocked into conversation Mr. Ford repeated again and again...
...pupil went up solo, record brevity for civilian flying), was Elmer Ambrose Sperry, 36, inventor of the artificial horizon for airplanes, youngest son of the late great Elmer Ambrose Sperry (TIME, June 23), younger brother of the late famed Pilot Lawrence Sperry who was drowned in the English Channel (TIME, Dec. 24, 1923). The eldest Sperry son, Edward Goodman, is not a pilot, nor is the Sperry daughter, Mrs. Robert...