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...Because it takes from two to five horsepower to crank an automobile," said the engineer. Then he asked: "How does this device work...
...Cadillac engineer was scornful. "Don't you know that no small storage battery can furnish enough power to crank an automobile? The battery companies will agree to that...
...organ grinders of Mexico City are to be seen and heard from noon till midnight's last serenade. They work in pairs, taking turns toting the barrel, winding the crank and passing the hat. Their instruments, invariably German-made, are rented (for 5 pesos a day) from old Maestro Gilberto Lazaro, whose enormous, crumbling house in Tepito, the thieves' market, is the hub of the hurdy-gurdy business. Lazaro places the notes on the wood-and-wire cylinders of his organs, first mastering the tunes by listening to records, then beating them out on a piano...
...William E. Jenner (R-Ind), and Rep. Harold H. Velde (R-III) both saw fit to comment. There were the usual complement of crank letters too. Many colleges expressed interest. At last report the student newspaper at Bonn University in Germany printed an account...
...case against Collier's Bucklin Moon [TiME, April 27] is the most exasperating of a long list of outrageous indignities. Do we Americans realize the dire condition of intellectual restraint now exercised in this country of ours? Not only can every crank discredit the object of his disfavor by labeling him a Communist, but it has now become extremely unwise for anyone to go to the victim's defense...