Word: taping
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...allow T. V. Soong, China's able, Harvard-trained Finance Minister to promulgate a law for which he and foreign traders have been agitating for years. The likin or tariff on goods shipped from one large town to another, will be abolished Dec. 31. Small in itself, red tape and the juggling of likin rates by provincial collections to allow for "squeeze" have held up and reduced the shipment of goods, have helped stifle the development of China's interior provinces.* Lest U. S. and other foreign exporters grow too exuberant, Finance Minister Soong announced at the same...
...because it was only his second visit to any airport, that he had little knowledge of aeronautics. But Thomas Edison, like Leonardo da Vinci, attacked the problem of aerodynamics early in his inventive career. About 1880 he devised an airplane engine powered by nitroglycerin. A roll of ordinary ticker-tape, turned into guncotton, was fed between two copper rolls into the cylinder and exploded electrically. But when the engine itself exploded and injured an assistant, Edison abandoned the project. In 1910 he secured a patent for a helicopter type, said to embody a number of tetrahedral (box) kites...
...Hallowell '32 was the first to cross the line, breaking the tape in 30 mins., 15 secs. Be and Hazen of New Hampshire had been running a close race from the start, but in the last 150 yards, Hallowell managed to secure a lead of about 10 yards, and increased it slightly before the end of the race. After Hazen, the next five men to finish were F. D. Murphy '33, R. P. Wesley '33, J. M. Fox '32, Arthur Foote '33, and B. E. Estes '32. The next few places were taken by alternating Harvard and New Hampshire...
...urgent appeal to the public not to throw papers or ticket tape at men on horseback during the legion parade today was issued at parade headquarters Officials said that many of the paraders are inexperienced riders, and they fear a stampede if the horses bolt...
...little man, frail, prematurely aged and crippled by arthritis, Sir Arthur was quiet, dignified, unhurried, hard to ruffle. The red tape of his job bored him; he knew how to laugh. When, newly appointed Ambassador to Spain, he presented his credentials to King Alfonso, he read his speech before the grandees of Spain, listened to the King's reply, bowed himself backwards toward the door, "stumbled over a stool, and fell flat on the carpet. Not a muscle moved on the face of King Alfonso. It was only when the great doors had closed behind him that Nicolson heard...