Word: driers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After this comes the whirling extractor, which presses water from the washed towels. The final phase of the cycle is the drier, powered by a 10 horsepower electric motor, which revolves and tumbles 100 towels at a time until they are soft...
...this one seemed already aerated--never seen a 'poon with drier ink. An' y' know, I mussa been drunk--becos every goddam thing in the paper seemed to me to have been written by some guy whats already left. Never seen a 'poon with so much correspondence...
Fire With Fire. At Newnan, 160 miles north, the skies were kinder to Talmadge's opponent, who put on a drier, better act. Young (35) Attorney General Ellis G. Arnall, boy wonder of Georgia politics, was out to beat Talmadge at his own medicine-show game. He served up 100 pit-barbecued pigs, 1,200 gallons of Brunswick stew, a two-hour vaudeville show featuring the Coweta Cracker Crunchers...
...pressure on U.S. prices-especially consumer prices-is getting stronger every week. Plugged by the patriotic thumbs of 1,700,000 retailers, the dyke has kept consumers much drier than they may feel. Last week many a retailer prepared to rest his thumb, turn over...
Brandy flasks passed from hand to mouth in the bone-chilling rain. The hundreds of fresh pine benches were too wet to sit on, but drier to stand on than the flooded pavement. Franklin Roosevelt laughed as the rain soaked his second inaugural manuscript, said: ". . . The greatest change we have witnessed has been the change in the moral climate of America." But his voice rang as he spoke his grim vision of the present: "I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished...