Word: hamper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wooden storage buildings were just being replaced by modern concrete terminal elevators when Howe first went to Western Canada. "I knew nothing about elevators," says Howe, "so there was nothing to hamper me." He worked out new ways of speeding up construction and designed cost-cutting improvements. To replace the slow process of unloading grain with hand shovels, he developed the Howe Car Dumper, a machine which can lift a boxcar full of grain off the railway track, tip it over and empty it in eight minutes. It is still in use at most Canadian terminals...
...United States Weather Bureau at Logan Airport said a heavy snow storm was forming in the mid-west and was bearing down on the New England area. Logan said the storm would effectively reduce air travel to the mid-west and would hamper cars severely...
...result, on the eve of the U.S.-Sweden zone finals, made good gamesman Hopman a likely candidate to go down in Gamesman history with such famed experts as Frith-Morteroy (master of the art of Countering the Crock), Edward Grice (specialist in the Secondary Hamper), and Stephen Potter himself (inventor of the Jack Rivers Opening). It also left the U.S. singles line-up just where it was a month...
...sought to hamper this year's grand jury investigation into St. Louis tax frauds...
...Assembly's recommendations provided no joint enforcement machinery, could not keep the Soviet bloc from trading as it pleased. But there was no doubt that the embargo could seriously hamper Red China's war-making capability (see below). By voting for it, the U.N. had struck a telling moral blow at Communist aggression, had shown that even nations who would like to be neutral are stiffening against Communist China...