Word: duals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lessons covering a period of 12 weeks will include actual driving practice on the road in a dual-control car equipped especially for training purposes. The lectures will be given Thursdays at 7:30 o'clock, and certificates will be awarded upon completion of the series...
Last week the Board took by no means its first but certainly its most spectacular dive into the muddied waters of dual unionism. The case involved National Electric Products Corp. Bidding for National Electric's 1,600 workers in Ambridge, Pa., near Pittsburgh, vere the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (A. F. of L.) and the United Electrical & Radio Workers (C. I. O.). Last May the company suddenly signed an A. F. of L. contract providing not only for exclusive bargaining but also for a closed shop. That meant that every C. I. O. man in National Electric...
Early in 1935, Editor Carlton Cole Magee of the Oklahoma News invented a device which he called the Dual Park-O-Meter because it had two purposes: to control parking, provide revenue. A typical parking meter is a waist-high metal post standing at curb's edge and crowned with a dial and a simple slot machine. When a coin is inserted, the meter marks time for the car parked beside it. When time is up, the driver must move his car away or risk a summons. In November 1935, Oklahoma City tried 174 of Editor Magee...
Other companies offering stock last week for the dual purpose of refunding and increasing working capital included Chicago Pneumatic Tool (70,000 shares of convertible prior preferred) and California's Food Machinery Corp. (40,000 shares of convertible preferred). Little Seaboard Finance Corp. went to market with 20,000 shares of convertible preferred to expand its small-loan and installment paper business in Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia...
...next two years. Meadows took the Olympic title alone last year, but twice this spring the Trojan "twins" have vaulted to identical heights to smash the accepted world's record of 14 ft. 6½ in. held by Oregon's George Varoff. At the Stanford-U.S.C. dual meet they soared 14 ft. 8 ½in. Three weeks later at the Pacific Coast Conference meet they vaulted 14 ft. 11 in., quit then simply because the crossbar could not be extended higher. As host for the N.C.A.A. meet last week, the University of California erected new standards...