Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chief rival to Elmira, N. Y. as a U. S. soaring centre is Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. There last week, in the course of a 10-day meet of the Soaring Society of America, two gliders flying in formation rose to 6,500 ft., broke the U. S. record of 6,233 ft. set last summer at Elmira by Richard Chichester du Pont (TIME, July 9). Pilots of the two gliders were President Warren Edwin Eaton of the Soaring Society and Lewin Bennitt Barringer, Philadelphia socialite. World's altitude record for motorless planes is held by Austria...
Famed is New York Central's advertising slogan: The Water Level Route-You Can Sleep. The implication is that passengers on the Pennsylvania, New York Central's great rival, are kept awake as their trains chuff up and over the Alleghenies to Pittsburgh and Chicago. The same implication, to a lesser degree, works against Baltimore & Ohio whose line roughly follows that of the Pennsylvania through the mountains. Last week B. & O. made a move to take itself out of the shadow of the New York Central's advertising...
...Hansen thought it the nastiest job of his career, said he was bumped against rocks and whirled around until he was groggy. By week's end he had encountered six drowned hulks, identified none as the Hussar. But Diver Hansen appraised as practically nil the chances of the rival Josephine, whose backers remained anonymous last week. Wearing ordinary diving-suits, the Josephine's divers worked only during slack tide, 20 min. twice...
...them via the medium of Peter M. Riccio, a Columbia professor, acting as interpreter. The questions varied from a request to have Beccali name the greatest runner he had ever seen to a demand for Cerati's opinion of Joe McCluskey, the Fordham star, who is Cerati's strongest rival...
...Last company under investigation was Lake Erie Chemical, whose President Byron Cassius Goss was Chemical Service chief of the A. E. F.'s Second Army. Like his rival, Mr. Young, Colonel Goss insisted on the relative humanity of gas. From the files of Lake Erie Chemical Co. was extracted a letter insinuating that the American Legion could be induced to lobby against the Arms Embargo Bill in January 1933. Colonel Goss believed they had been so induced. Up from the committee table rose Senator Clark, one of the Legion's organizers and its second national commander, to roar...