Word: drummings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contribution to 1934 motoring is automatic gear-shifting. You still have to put the car in low gear (with a push rod on the dash) but once in gear a few steel weights spinning like a governor on a drum in the rear of the transmission do the rest. When a speed of about 18 m.p.h. is attained, centrifugal force throws out the weights, engaging a small supplementary clutch which throws the car into direct drive (high gear). When the car slows down below 18 m.p.h. the weights drop back, the small clutch disengages and the car is automatically...
...comics, Mr. Tombes and his female stooge, Miss Starbuck are fairly good, and buck up the dull spots. The production as a whole is hum-drum; passable, nothing more...
Sixty-five members of the Glee Club will take part in the program, which will include the following numbers: "Drake's Drum", Coleridge-Taylor; "The Pedlar," Russian folk song; choruses from "The Gondoliers," Gilbert and Sullivan; "Shoot False Love," Morley; "Bonnie Dundee," Scottish folk song; "Crudele Irene," Italian folk song. If time permits "Fair Harvard" will be sung at the conclusion of the program...
...T.V.A., which, being interpreted, means the Tennessee Valley Authority. Headed by David Lillienthal and Frank Morgan, this offspring of the Administration's left-wing is beginning to cause no small commotion over its plans and projects. All the doughty adherents of decentralization in industry are rallying around with drum and fife, eager to explore the possibilities of small units of production based on partial or complete use of the cheap electricity which the series of gigantic dams and power plants now constructed, under construction, or merely planned, are designed to furnish to the Valley. Blueprints have been laid...
Dancing and entertainment will be continuous from 8 o'clock to 1 o'clock. The entertainment will include, among other things, a student quartet, rendering well-known airs; an old-time minstrel in Bavarian costume; a clever little six-year old danseuse performing an intricate tap-dance on a drum...