Word: diversities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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No household word is Scovill because the company deals largely with other manufacturers. It makes parts for radios, watches, clocks, electric fixtures, razors, surgical instruments, automobiles, oil burners, typewriters, umbrellas, overalls, suspenders, locomotives, bicycles. Its own line, beside buttons, includes pipes, rods, sheets, plumbing fixtures, electric motors, blow torches, bolts...
The Terminal's procedure was to pay out 2,000 ft. of cable with Hansen in "Eleanor" at the end, then drag him along against the swirling tide. Though the depth was never more than 112 ft., Hansen thought it the nastiest job of his career, said he was...
Dr. Beebe had intended to try for a half-mile dive, but at 2,510 ft. he had a hunch, he said later, that he had better not go down any farther. While he was yammering excitedly into the mouthpiece, Mr. Barton exposed 25 ft. of cinema film and took...
In four days of splashing up & down the 50-meter pool at Detroit's River Rouge Park last week the best girl swimmers and divers in the U. S. accomplished the remarkable feat of setting no new U. S. record. It was the first time on record that a national...
Greek sponge divers at Tarpon Springs wrecked the Key West sponge trade. Machinery replaced oldtime cigar makers, and Tampa replaced Key West as a centre of cigar manufacture. American Tobacco Co. moved its Key West plant first to Tampa, then to Trenton, N. J. In 1930. President Hoover decommissioned the...