Word: floor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have, and your hat, if you wear one, your spare pencil, your spectacles and your watch, with lots of leg-room underneath, to tilt, squirm, or sprawl as the fancy seizes you-or a smooth, varnished wood-and-iron chair, carved to fit your bottom, screwed immovably to the floor, with the right arm designed for writing on, that is widened enough to take one roundish shaped piece of paper or a clip-board, no place to put your elbow, a sort of island in a useless unfriendly void...
There is something about screwing a chair to the floor which carries unpleasant associations, mainly a feeling of compulsion, of regimentation. The occupant of a screwed-down chair seems more often than not to be a victim, a passive but restless recipient of a necessary, but irksome attention. I must be thinking of barbers' chairs, dentists' chairs, and possibly electric chairs. Somehow screwing down seems inappropriate to a class-room...
...broker," Richard Whitney,* to the Stock Exchange's No. 2 Post, where U.S. Steel is traded. Cried Whitney: "I bid $205 for 25,000 shares of Steel." He moved on to other posts, cried other bids for huge blocks at the price of the last sale. Around the floor word spread that the House of Morgan and the New York banks had put a cushion under the market. The market rallied. It looked as if the Morgan "miracle" had staved off disaster. "Business," announced Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W.Mellon, "is fundamentally sound." The Cleveland Trust...
...walls; some have no roofs either. Typical are the millhouse and the "steep house," in which grain is placed in large wooden tanks for treatment in a dilute sulphuric acid solution. The sea breeze keeps the steep house clear of choking sulphur fumes. The breeze also sweeps clean the floor under the silo conveyor belt, usually a collection spot for explosive dust...
Overhanging concrete canopies protect workmen from the hot Texas sun and occasional rainstorms, while low railings keep them from walking off a floor. Because of better design and more mechanization, the plant operates with only 250 production employees compared to almost 500 in an old-fashioned refining plant with the same capacity...