Word: craning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Czecho-Slovakia a workman called "Old Vacek" ran a crane at the great Skoda munitions works at Pilsen. One day a big ladle of molten lead being carried on Vacek's crane suddenly flipped over. It happened that a posse of German Army commissioners were passing beneath: 14 of them were burned to death. Old Vacek did not try to pretend accident. He dived out of his cab, 60 feet head first to the concrete floor...
...Clarance Crane Brinton '19 has moved up the ladder from an instructor in 1923 to professor of History and tutor in the Department of History. Three years ago he was made a Senior Fellow...
Kilgore's list includes Montesquieri, "Persian Letters"; Charles B. Brown, "Wieland"; Karl Net, "An Outline of the History of Music"; Albert L Guerard, "Preface to World Literature"; Cecil Noura, "Tradition and Design in the lliad"; Crane Brinton, "Anatomy of Revolution"; Voltaire, "Letters on the English." and A. H. Quinn, "Representative American Plays, Century 3rd Edition...
...Coffee Concerts serve largely to further the aims of their founder, a musicians' manager: Louise Crane, 28 this week, daughter of the late, rich Governor of Massachusetts, Winthrop Murray Crane. Agent Crane lost a bit on her first series, jacked prices to $2.20 for the second. She is the only agent who specializes in artists who shuttle between concert hall and nightclub. Members of her stable: Tap Dancer Lawrence, a Trinidad dancer and Calypso singer named Belle Rosette, a Negro singing quintet called the Sophisti-chords, three dancing Ecuadorian Indians...
Industrial use of 1,000,000-volt machines had to wait until they became compact and light (1,500 lb.) enough to be slung easily from a crane and aimed this way & that upon intricate pieces of machinery. The new giants have two great industrial advantages: 1) they can see through thicker metals, 2) they can do the work of smaller machines in less time...