Word: groundedness
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Left then to choose between judges sitting hundreds of miles from Washington and actual firsthand participants in the New Deal, Franklin Roosevelt chose the group he trusted best, eliminated the judges from consideration. Then it was: Reed, Minton or Black? Black, Minton or Reed? Stanley Reed has been a stanch...
The first two flights had been made in slow, single-motored jobs. Purpose this time was to demonstrate the route's commercial importance and Levanevsky was given a huge, new, four-motored monoplane with crew of five and cargo of caviar, furs and mail. Having greater speed but less...
THE UNHOLY CITY-Charles G. Finney -Vanguard ($2). Satirical phantasy, in the Major Hoople cartoon vein of wit, about an airline passenger grounded in Floreat Go-Lee; by the author of The Circus of Dr. Lao.
Whatever the spark's origin, the fire probably meant the end of hydrogen in passenger airships, though the Germans have lost few ships from that cause. The Hindenburg was LZ129. Of her 128 German predecessors, ten never left the drawing board, 25 were lost by storm and accident, six...
Few friends has Aluminum Co. of America but some of the warmest are to be found among missionaries. The loyalty of this pious rooting section is as well-grounded in material interest as that of the Mellon family, which owns about one-third of Alcoa's stock. When Charles...