Word: elgin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago, Continental Roll & Steel Foundry has upped production 20% with 200 workable employe suggestions since January. Elgin Watch Co. (at Elgin and Aurora, Ill.) has seen its fuse plant zoom to 65% above its production quota in the two months its shop committee has been in existence. Aurora's Independent Pneumatic Tool Co. has seen a 21% production increase, is hauling in 100 new production ideas a week-and paying for good ones at the low rate of one $5 defense stamp apiece, because the committee asked the company not to pay more...
...went on a hunger strike, vowed he would lay down his life in defiance of British defense regulations and the way they are enforced in India. His health grew so bad that the alarmed British, afraid he might die in jail, transferred him to his luxurious home on Elgin Road in the European section of Calcutta, under guard of C. I. D. operatives. There he professedly abandoned his faith in European medical science, took up yoga exercises with such fervor that friends feared for his sanity...
Those who are most vocal want you to whoop it up, not to think it out. I plead for strength before we bait the bear." >At Cooper Union (Manhattan), Case School's President William Elgin Wickenden told graduates: "The decades of illusion and self-indulgence are over. Your generation may never know security of wealth, of employment, perhaps even of life itself." >Owen D. Young (at Syracuse): "I cannot say that the insistent cry of youth today-jobs, not war'-is wrong, but I can say that unless you are prepared for the second you may never have...
...Elgin, Ill., Mrs. Beulah Kemp, 38, underwent a routine operation: the extraction of an inch-long phonograph needle from her insides, the twelfth in the past 23 years. Vexed, Mrs. Kemp has no idea where the needles come from or how they get inside...
...Louis Armstrong were unconsciously shaping a folk music whose syncopated four-four time would later make the whole world dance and sing differently. In rediscovering and re-recording Jelly's simple and persuasive music, Charles Smith has done for the jazz cult something pretty close to what Lord Elgin did for antiquarians...