Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Today the world faces terrible times. The European situation is graver than it was in 1914 and the stakes are higher. Today our regular army is 21 battalions smaller than in 1914, and additionally is short 12,000 men, while the territorials are 40,000 under their strength, which on paper...
This car, which Dr. Bridges calls "Lightning Bug," looks something like the Dymaxion designed by Architect Richard Buckminster Fuller (TIME, June 12, 1933), but is smaller and squattier. It is almost perfectly streamlined, even the license plates and tail-lamp being recessed into the body and covered with Pyralin windows flush with the streamlining. There are no door handles; the doors must be opened with special keys. Dr. Bridges pronounced the Lightning Bug crash-proof and carbon-monoxide-proof. "My whole aim," said he, "was to show what could be done to attain safety, economy and readability in a small...
...while 572 Freshmen and 58 upperclassman, a total of 640, will receive congratulatory letters of acceptance. The figures for this year show an increase in the number of applicants, particularly in rooms over the $300 mark, in spite of the fact that the Freshman class as a whole is smaller...
...been steadily stepped up by supercharging, higher compression, stronger parts and fuels with higher octane rating. Pratt & Whitney began to think that not much more could be asked of radial engines in single nine-cylinder banks. Since 1929 they have been tinkering with 14 cylinders in two banks, with smaller bores and lighter, more frequent power impulses...
...onus attached to RFC loans. Those in a sounder position could not find use even for the money they already had. Upshot was that Mr. Jones finally persuaded big super-solvent institutions to sell him notes or preferred stock as a patriotic gesture, thereby setting an example for smaller banks to follow. One of the first to do this was Chicago's First National, then headed by the late Melvin Alvah Traylor. Before he was through, RFChairman Jones injected $1,040,000,000 of Government capital into 6,057 U. S. banks and trust companies...