Word: adjuster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heinkel. A high explosive nests in a cavity at the headless end of an aluminum-alloy rivet. When heat is applied to the head by an electric riveting gun, the charge explodes at the other end, forms a "blind" head, sets the rivet. Explosive charges can be controlled to adjust the size and shape of the head to within .02 in. This breaks a major plane-building bottleneck: riveting points which can be reached from only one side. So troublesome have been these inaccessible points that plane designs have often been modified to avoid them, but there are still...
During the last war, all men who entered the service after completing three-fourths of their college work received diplomas at the Armistice. Today the problem is more complicated. Although a Junior would have plenty of time to re-adjust himself to study habits in preparation for final exams, after having spent a year in training, a Senior could obviously not prepare for generals in three months, much less write a thesis. Seniors, therefore, at the end of their army experience would have the unpleasant choice between the frying pan and the fire, between sweating through the examinations or waiting...
...British in Alexandria rested secure in the feeling that this time German logistical arrangements were vulnerable; that though they had come far, it was still lots farther to Alexandria and Suez; that the Germans had not had time to adjust themselves to desert dysentery, sand blindness, and the strange desert infection which keeps even scratches open. But from Vichy they heard that the Germans had spent weeks baking themselves in huge, sand-floored, sunlamp-lit ovens at temperatures well over 100°, to fit themselves for desert fighting...
...Henry Ford had agreed to negotiate with a labor union. The settlement, fruit of Governor Murray D. Van Wagoner's and U.S. Conciliator James Dewey's tireless efforts, set up a board on which top-ranking Ford men will confer with union men and public officials to adjust grievances that cannot be settled by plant committees. Ford agreed to reinstate five of the men whose dismissals precipitated a walkout at the huge Rouge plant. The union agreed to leave the cases of three others in arbitration. Both sides agreed to cooperate in an NLRB election to determine finally...
During Prohibition I served on a commission with Colonel Donovan to adjust the water rights of Texas, New Mexico and Colorado on the Rio Grande River. I was rushing through the hotel lobby in Santa Fe one very cold night and met Colonel Donovan. He said: "Where are you going in such a hurry?" I said: "I am going up to Major Burges' room and get me the biggest drink of Bourbon whiskey that ever came out of El Paso-come on and go with me." He said: "No, however much I would like to, yet I carry...