Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which resulted in varying sizes. As soon as the demand increased, it was quite natural that some were blown into moulds from the hot glass as taken from the melting pots. But when incandescent lamps became a necessity, the blowing of these bulbs by individual glass blowers created a labor problem, hence the thought of blowing these bulbs by machines - but how? While the mechanical part of a machine that would do the work was by no means an easy task, the greater problem was to have the molten glass of the right consistency (viscosity), ready to feed the machine...
...hour he remained closeted with the King, who was still in bed. When he emerged, Prime Minister Baldwin no longer, but the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, M. P., Princess Elizabeth was still being trundled in the driveway. Stanley Baldwin, M. P., drove away. The rest of the week was Labor...
Then came forward Mr. Filene. Information on European wages, said he, would be valuable to all U. S. businessmen. U. S. Prosperity would increase if European wages rose. Therefore he would guarantee the Labor Office $25,000 to conduct its research. A good cause should not suffer from lack of funds...
...Extremely welcome and gratifying . . . permit us to do a service of greatest importance ... a service we have long wanted to perform," said Albert Thomas, the League's Labor Office Director...
...first time far-sighted Merchant Filene had helped the League. He has outstanding another $25,000 offer to the Labor Office's Scientific Management Institute, conditional upon the Rockefeller Institute's donating a like amount. And the International Labor Conference which last week opened at Geneva is using a telephonic translation system for which Mr. Filene paid. This translation system is a device which records speeches in six languages, thus enabling most of the delegates to follow proceedings without the delay of interpreters...