Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bandsaw blade (thickness: .005 in.) with 88 teeth to the inch, to a ten-foot spiral, inserted-tooth monster used for lumber and metal cutting (two were ordered last week for Allied munitions plants). Disston knives, files and other tools cut sugar beets, chop gunpowder, smooth bricks, polish playing-card backs, perforate newspapers, slice caramels. Disston saws also go to amateur musicians and into vaudeville at the rate of about 500 a year. Specially made, musical saws are flat-ground, straight-backed, smooth so the notes will run through the whole blade...
...Seventh president of Disston is mild, balding Samuel Horace Disston, 59, grandson of Founder Henry's brother. He hardened files, sharpened saws, etc., for eleven years before the family let him out of the shops. Thoroughly acquainted with every angle of the vast business, he carries a black card in his pocket which, lettered in Chinese, he translates as: CONFUCIUS SAY DISSTON HAS THE EDGE...
...appealed for sacrifice from the nation. ... I say now solemnly that the Prime Minister can give an example of sacrifice, because I tell him one thing: that there is nothing that would contribute more to victory in this war than that he should sacrifice his seals of office." Last Card. Neville Chamberlain had one card left to play, and it must have hurt him to have to play it. Since he took Winston Churchill into his Cabinet when war began, he has watched his First Lord's popularity grow steadily, while his steadily dwindled. Though the two men have...
...York matchmakers, Lew Jenkins described himself as an "ornery cuss," was finally given a chance on a Tuesday-night card in Long Island City's Queensboro Arena. He won his first fight, his second, his third. By the time he had won six in a row, New York managers sat up and took notice. Two months ago, when he knocked out Tippy Larkin in one round at Madison Square Garden for his tenth successive victory, knowing New York fight fans became aware of the latest pugilistic freak: a hollow-cheeked, sunken-eyed 132-pounder, with the legs...
Last week, just before the attack on Holland, reticent Mr. Ward casually announced that he had just received a Christmas card from Glenview, ILL. signed "Hal and Olive"; unwittingly appeared to have knocked his masquerade into a cocked hat. Glenview (pop. 1,886), 20 miles from Chicago, is too small for secrets. Hal and Olive were promptly discovered to be Harold and Olive Kennicott, longtime friends of one Edward Leopold Delaney, with whom they had corresponded in. Berlin...