Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Ever since their monopoly vanished and their earnings began to fall, U. S. railroad men have squawked about Government subsidies to their competitors, especially inland waterways and trucks...
This spray is said to burn more smoothly and cheaply than a carburetor mixture, to make possible the use of less volatile gasolines, to prevent icing under any conditions. One of the first German planes shot down last fall in Scotland was found to have a fuel-injection device. In the U. S., Continental Motors Corp. now equips 75-h.p. engines for light planes with the first commercial U. S. fuel-injection system. Army & Navy technologists are experimenting with...
...high hills of southern Tennessee, is short on doctors but long on religion. At Lawrenceburg, the county seat, Farmer Joe Brady went on trial last week for religion's sake. Reason: he had fetched no medical aid for his wife Unice when she lay ill of pneumonia last fall. "I told her I'd sell the mule, get a doctor and some medicine if she wanted it," said deep-voiced Joe Brady. "But Unice wouldn't hear to it and she died with the Lord's praises on her lips...
...Last fall Pan Am set out as an intervener before CAA to block American Export from getting a certificate of convenience and necessity. Chief contentions: that Export was not financially equipped for ocean trailblazing, that its personnel was inadequate, that on air lanes later to be invaded by French and British lines its competition would be wasteful and costly to U. S. aviation...
...first 90 to report showed earnings 43% above the same quarter of 1939 (68% not counting overweighty American Tel. & Tel.). The reasons for this paradox were that: 1) although production continuously declined, the quarterly average was still good because of big backlogs of orders piled up last fall; 2) first-quarter earnings looked good because they were compared with the very poor first quarter of 1939. Some sample first-quarter reports...