Word: keys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Boot & Shoe Trade Association, deciding that the only way to fit a shoe properly is to study the shod foot in action, exhibited a rubber overshoe carrying six electrical contacts at key pressure points. When the wearer walks over a metal surface, electrical instruments record the pressure changes...
Last week the I. C. C. finally made up its mind. On shipments whose tariff is a minimum 45? per 100 lb. all railroads east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio may provide free store-to-door service, offer the 5? self-delivery discount. Key to the decision-a signal victory for the railroads-was the discovery by the I. C. C. that less-than-carload shipments had risen briskly in the West and Southwest, thus proving that the public wanted the service...
...this high-powered Detroiter was a highly logical choice. More than two-thirds of its $35,000,000 worth of assets are in banks or Government bonds. Its name is potent. But Nash lost money from 1933 through 1935, is not making much money now. Its sales organization, the key to modern motor profit, needs strengthening, and sales organization is one of Mr. Mason's long suits. Kelvinator has 10,000 dealers, Nash only...
...Secret Journey is a wilder and more powerful book. Centring around a sinister moneylender, Mrs. Anna Ragner, who has involved Mrs. Fury in fantastic debts, it is written in an even more sombre key than The Furys, pictures events more nerve-racking, hysterical, violent. Mrs. Fury has borrowed in order to keep Peter at college, borrowed more to pay interest, pledged her furniture, the earnings of her family, the possessions of her son-in-law, the compensation paid for her son's injury. At the day of reckoning Peter returns after a year at sea, is astonished when...
...Maintenance Shops have engines that drill square holes, air pumps which suck away shavings, steam heaters to soften lumber, and knife-edge power wood cutters which, if misrun, could hurl a razor-like slug of tool steel right through the operator. Roofing, metal shaping, forging, pipe drilling, and key making, are some of the activities at the river-front shops. In the familiar yellow building can be done anything from covering shades to making cardboard pillars for Fogg...