Word: frictional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joaquin County, Calif., an incendiary fastened sandpaper to the spring of a mousetrap, friction matches to the base. Carefully he pulled the spring back and held it at tension with a piece of adhesive tape. Then he put his contrivance in a grain field and from hiding waited until the sun melted the adhesive and sprang the trap which ignited the matches and set fire to 1,600 acres of grain...
...seven comely daughters, all married, and two sons. Harold, a famed polo player, is a director of Chrysler Corp.. Thompson-Starrett and many another organization. Nelson ("Bud") Talbott, Yale football captain in 1915, is president of N. S. Talbott Co., which controls Mc-Claren Ice Cream Cones, Friction Toys, and Vance Manufacturing Co. which makes steel in Pullman cars look like wood. There are 32 grandchildren who, like their parents, pay frequent visits to the matriarch in Dayton...
...fellow members in Detroit, and began to receive a half hundred union complaints against discrimination by automobile manufacturers. Promptly he made two announcements: 1) "Rules of evidence will not bother us. We will . . . let the men tell their stories in their own words." 2) "In order to avoid friction . . . there should not be any solicitation for membership in either unions or company representation plans during working hours...
...bureaucracies with approximately the same objective: the settlement of industrial dislocations. To have the two organizations covering a common territory with slightly varying policy (the Labor Department being the more Leftist of the twain), has lead not only to a dis-economy of effort but very real friction. Turning the mediation work of the N.R.A. back to its proper setting in the existing department, and, while they're at it, pushing the statistical branches over to the Department of Commerce would be two reforms whose value would be in considerable excess of their difficulty...
...economic condition of the country. No one can deny that it would be dangerous for the government, because it would be dangerous for anyone else, to purchase the railroad plant of America during a depression. Politically, on the other hand, the transfer can be made with less friction when the railroads are losing money than when they are profitable. The crux of this matter must depend upon whether, for the nation, shipper and consumer and manufacturer, our transportation would be improved under government ownership; the arguments on either side are not substantially affected, although they may be brought into sharper...