Word: leverence
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...whither industrial civilization is moving. To thousands of discontented technicians employed (or discharged) by oil. lumber, automotive and other industries whose wealth they envy, Technocracy is the hope of a new economic deal. To I. W. W.'s. with whom Howard Scott was once associated, Technocracy is a new lever against Capitalism. Each man sees in Technocracy what he wishes for and Howard Scott, Technocracy's spokesman, breathes fog upon their mirrors...
...biplane and vanished. Rather than see the machine rot on its wheels, Gates started the engine one day, mounted the rickety seat, started taxiing about the field just for the fun of "grass-cutting.'' To his astonishment the plane rose some 20 ft. Hastily Gates shoved a lever, landed with a bang. On the strength of that maiden flight, Gates booked himself for a number of engagements as an aviator. Perhaps fortunately, a taxicab accident put him on crutches and he was forced to seek a substitute. He found Didier Masson. Paulhan's mechanic. Thus Gates became...
...Britons liked blatant slogans (which Britons do not) they might have opened London's annual motor show last week with: "The Gear Shift Lever Must Go!" Ten of the 26 British exhibitors showed cars not equipped with gear shift levers but having at the centre of the steering wheel a minute gadget called a "pre-selector...
Paradoxically the new Wilson Pre-Selective Gearbox which triumphed at the London Show last week is only a great and suave improvement on Henry Ford's ancient "planetary transmission" of immortal Model T. Last week the 8-h. p. British Ford was not pre-selective, had a gear lever of conventional U. S. type. From France came Andre Citroen's latest, a car with floating power"-by permission of Walter P. Chrysler who has leased the French rights of his moteur flottant to "The Ford of France...
...practical experience of American methods thus acquired will be a lever in raising the living standards of this country. No one looking at Dnieprostroy can doubt the Soviet Union's success in becoming a great industrial nation...