Word: headedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile in Detroit, Homer Martin, head of U. A. W.'s seceding minority, was unable to meet his headquarters payroll until five days after it was due, had to dismiss 35 organizers. Strained by advance disclosure that he was planning to take his faction into A. F. of L., Mr. Martin's nerves snapped when Detroit Timesman Harry Taylor commented caustically upon the sad state of Mr. Martin's affairs. Homer Martin flared up, fisticuffed for five minutes...
...unduly disturbed was the President when the Senate suddenly took its own head and passed the Bankhead plan, upping the price the farmers would have to pay from 3? to 5? a pound and limiting sales to 2,000,000 bales. For with the help of House Agricultural Chairman Marvin Jones, and with time working against the Bankhead plan because planting had already started, he counted on it dying an early death in the House. Meantime, the Department of Agriculture already had $5,000,000 available to put the Roosevelt plan into operation...
...Philadelphia's Franklin Institute last week a dummy named Oscar was catapulted headfirst against an automobile windshield. The pane cracked and some crumbs of glass fell outside the car. But when Oscar's head hit it, the pane bulged outward two or three inches. If the dummy had been a real person involved in a motor crash, this elastic yield of the glass might have saved him a skull fracture...
Cellulose nitrate was the first binder used; actinic rays in sunshine turned this disagreeably brown. Cellulose acetate as a binder and actinic-filtering glass stopped the discoloration. But the glass was hard and, though it did not fly into lacerating fragments, a human head striking it fared badly. Moreover, it became brittle in cold weather. The new glass is not only soft for safety but keeps its effectiveness at temperatures around zero...
Crash experts of CAA's Air Safety Board attributed Braniff's crash to the left engine's throwing a cylinder. As Pilot Claude Seaton turned back to the field the disintegrating motor apparently ripped open its cowling, forming such a centre of head resistance that the ship slewed sidewise into the ground. Like the Braniff crash, the crack-up of a Northwest Airlines Lockheed near Miles City, Mont. Jan. 13 was due to mechanical failure. Last week CAA announced its apparent cause: a fire, originating in a floorboard compartment in the pilot's cabin through which...