Word: drum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elevator engineering is based on the simple hoist. Suspended by cables (still "ropes" to elevator men) and balanced by a counterweight, the car is drawn upward on its rails by a motor-driven drum ("sheave") at the top of the shaft. The development of this mechanism from the old geared, hand-operated elevator to the modern skyscraper type was chiefly a matter of making the necessary high speeds comfortable and safe. Pioneering Otis engineers experimenting on Otis employes found that a speed of 1,200 ft. per minute was fast enough, that the rate of acceleration upward of an elevator...
...Reason: 18,000 members of Mexico's Syndicate of Petroleum Workers, settling into their second week of strike against Royal Dutch Shell, Standard Oil of New Jersey and 15 other Foreign companies, had shut Mexico's $500,000,000 oil industry down as tight as a petroleum drum...
Referring to the last three lines centre column p. 39, TIME, May 24: you say the Coronation program was "the longest continuous program in radio history." We question this in view of the fact that on March 24, 1934, General Petroleum Corp. of California through its advertising agency Smith & Drum, Inc. introduced Mobilgas to the Pacific Coast with a radio program over all stations of the [then] Columbia Don Lee network which ran from 7:30 a.m. until midnight. The first 9½ hours and the last 3½ hours of this broadcast were continuous. Occasional interruptions between...
...impromptu concert was led by drum-major George F. Lowman '38, high-scoring forward of the crimson basketeers, and was witnessed by an enthusiastic crowd of house residents who thronged the court and hung out of windows...
Accompanied by bugle notes and drum eats form a regular army band, nearly 200 of t he Military Science students will stage the University's first big outdoor display of militarism today. The review will take place on the rugby sector of Soldiers Field at 2:30 o'clock. It is an open affair to all interested...