Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pennsylvania's new, $60,000,000 Dream Highway (Harrisburg to Pittsburgh). This meant that farmers in Somerset County, who do spare-time work on the roads for extra cash, had to join the union and pay $15 initiation fees in order to get jobs. Six-foot, two-inch Farmer Victor Glessner organized his fellows, smashed the union's county headquarters, ran two organizers away, had another indicted for waving a pistol at protesting ruralites. Having effectively opened the closed shop, Farmer Glessner & friends then organized the Somerset County Independents, vowed to keep the job closed to unions...
...product of lifelong tinkering by Powel Crosley with lightweight automobiles, the new car has an 80-inch wheelbase, 40-inch tread, a two-cylinder, air-cooled engine which gives it a high speed of 50 miles an hour, and runs 50 to 60 miles on a gallon of gasoline. Two quarts of oil fill its crankcase, four gallons of gas its fuel tank. At $325 for the coupe, $25 more for the sedan, it will undersell by $62 the only other U. S. midget on the automotive market, the American Bantam...
...populated star "haloes" extending the system for beyond the size astronomers have generally assigned to them were reported by Dr. Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Observatory speaking before a symposium of distinguished astronomers at the dedication of the McDonald Observatory's new 82-inch reflector yesterday...
...five is Larry Kingman, a steady oarsman from last year's Jayvee crew. His stroke seems to stay fairly smooth consistently. In front of him in the six position is Quinby Taylor, six foot, six inch giant, who, because of his height just about confines his rowing to his arms. This is accentuated by the unusually short stroke that Harvard crews use. He pulls the most water in the boat but seems to have trouble with timing his catch. He came up from the combination crew last spring...
Professor Shapley spoke yesterday morning before a symposiumn of twenty leading astronomers, assembled at the dedication ceremonies of the new 82-inch reflector of the McDonald Observatory. Professor Shapley's paper dealt with the use of variable stars in studying structure and dimensions of stellar systems...