Word: fastener
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...back to Washington at once and sent to a hospital. Last week these two-George P. Kimmel, Washington patent lawyer, and Homer J. Byrd, Illinois State Superintendent of Registration & Education-were in court demanding $200,000 damages from the airline.* They contended the pilot should have warned them to fasten their safety belts. The airline retorted that the weather had not been bad, that bumps often come without warning, that the accident was unavoidable...
Ordinary safety pins may be safe when closed, but they sometimes fly open and penetrate the flesh of infants whose clothing they fasten. Inventors J. H. Williams of Spokane and Victor Grant Jones of Seattle heard of babies who swallowed open safety pins. Accordingly they invented last week what they called a really safe safety pin. It has a reversed spring, so that pressure is necessary to pull the pin open, and the tine when released springs back into its socket...
...pulled up in a short climb. Satisfied he had succeeded in his experiment, he folded his wings, pulled the ripcord of his regular parachute at 6,000 ft., landed some three miles from his starting point. His flight had lasted 75 seconds. Next time he will use bigger wings, fasten a tank of smoke-producing chemicals to one leg so spectators can follow his course...
...Shermar Corp., † the Wiggin family holding company, to sell holdings of Chase stock. It sold over 50,000 shares of the Wiggin family's stock at boom prices and besides had a cash profit of $1,452,000 from operations. No crime did the investigators attempt to fasten on Mr. Wiggin but the committee's efforts seemed bent on accusing him of a deadly sin: greed...
Deets Pickett, researcher for the Methodist Episcopal lobby: "The liquor interests are planning to expand their trade by exploiting boys and girls, particularly girls. They are planning to fasten their grip upon the nation by secretly controlling the newspapers, paying the private debts of men in influential positions, subsidizing writers, boycotting manufacturing concerns hostile to them, infiltrating their agents into public and private organizations, misleading the foreign born and working in close agreement with the disloyal, the vicious and the criminal." Researcher Pickett described himself as "a reasonable...