Word: controls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...injury to all." For the Federation's first president he hit on Harry Lundeberg, who was even more militant than he. This was such a boost for Lundeberg that he was soon given leadership of the Sailors' Union. Meantime the two Harrys settled down to battle for control of the Federation's 40,000 members...
...enough a stroke of lightning cancels it. A direct hit by lightning has never been definitely shown to be the cause of an airplane wreck, but there is little doubt that the concussion of a nearby lightning stroke might suffice to send a comparatively frail glider down out of control or in splinters...
...minute was fast enough, that the rate of acceleration upward of an elevator cannot be greater than 14 ft. per sec. without causing passengers' knees to buckle as gravity's pull abruptly increases their weight.* To slow down and stop high speed elevators Otis perfected its "signal control" system, by which contacts made at every floor with the braking mechanism become effective only when a button has been pushed for a certain floor. Of this type are the Otis elevators (capable of 1,200 ft. per min.) in the Empire State and Chrysler Buildings...
...Rockefeller Center is the breezy Rockefeller Center Luncheon Club. There one sweltering day last week, after a few rounds of cool Budweiser, some 35 financial newshawks sat down at a long table as the guests of Robert Ralph Young, amiable spokesman-member of the trio which bought control of the Van Sweringen railroad empire from George A. Ball, the Muncie, Ind. fruit-jar tycoon (TIME, May 3). It was quiet Mr. Young who described himself and his two partners-Allan P. Kirby and Frank F. Kolbe-as "just babes in the woods." Last week the "Babes" started...
...reform, declares Socialist Blum, need not wait for social revolution, can be won "simply through progress in ideas about morality." Veering even more sharply from orthodox Marxist sex doctrine is his belief that, since the "upper and middle classes" control public opinion and show the highest sex illiteracy, education must begin at the top. And of this group, since its men are already groping along the right track, "it is upon girls . . . that I rely for carrying out the reform which I suggest...