Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four years ago TIME reported that Reader Ryan had sued various railroads and steel corporations, including U. S. Steel, for $500,000,000, charging infringement of patents on self-locking nut & bolt devices invented by her late husband. The suits are still pending, and Mrs. Ryan, now 64, is about to publish a book called A Stolen Invention. She explains that the suits are for $250,000,000, not $500,000,000; that she, not her husband, was the inventor. Mrs. Ryan also says she has invented puncture-proof tires and an air cushion to ease the landing of persons...
...Mexico, Senator Bronson Cutting had the campaign distinction of being the only insurgent Republican to bolt his national ticket in 1932 and miss out on an endorsement from Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934. But this lisping ex-Easterner had plenty of other radical support. Into New Mexico to campaign for him went Montana's Wheeler, Colorado's Cortigan, Wisconsin's La Follette, Nebraska's Norris. The A. F. of L. endorsed and Albert Bacon Fall called him '"unbeatable." Yet last week Senator Cutting was beaten by Democrat Dennis Chavez. Strangely enough, Senator-elect Chavez could...
...official committee never made a mistake (except perhaps in refusing his protest of Saturday) he took stock of his equipment to see if he was fitted out for an Amazonian expedition. He was. There were thirty-one heads on board in case head-hunters were encountered; there was a bolt of bright blue gingham for exchange purposes, and, best of all, a mandolin player who could soothe the savage breast if the savage breast got savage...
...Manhattan laboratory of Drs. Irving Sherwood Wright and Dean Moffat who reported the latest of several studies on cigarets and capillary constriction, men and women sat bolt upright with their hands stretched over a table high as their chests. Pointed at the transparent flesh around the finger nails was a special capillary microscope. Intermittently for three-hour tests, subjects held the pose and puffed at cigarets, suspended on slender reeds before their lips. Some of the cigarets were standard brands; others were de-nicotinized; still others were mentholated. Then, too, there were rolls of shredded paper containing no tobacco...
...Ballhaus. So closely did these invaders resemble lawful forces of the State that the Ballhaus' sentries had not even challenged them. Jumping down from a truck, their leader, dressed as a high Austrian Army officer with medals blazing on his chest, barked orders to close and bolt the great oak doors of the Ballhaus. Even this seemed regular enough to the sentries but an instant later they quailed as pistols were pressed to their ribs with the order: "Drop your arms! You and the rest are hostages. If the Ballhaus is attacked...