Word: levering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series of industrial excursions to take place on Tuesday afternoons has also been arranged. The schedule follows: July 11, Athenaeum Press; July 18, General Baking Company; July 25, Lever Brothers Company; August 1, Boston Fish Pier; August 8, W. F. Schrafft & Sons Corporation...
...Lever or Club? Last week both professional Wets and Drys wished they knew the answer to the question: What effect will beer have upon the war for Repeal? Wets prayed that the first excitement over beer's return would quickly subside into a system of non-political control which would demonstrate the country's capacity to handle hard liquor with decent moderation, a lever for Repeal...
...French gunnery school at Cazeaux a camera that resembled, in outward appearance, a Lewis machine gun. This "camera gun" was mounted parallel to axis of the airplane and was charged with a small film roll-like an ordinary Kodak. A fresh film was moved into position by pulling a lever. When in mock combat, the student tried to get his sights on his opponent and "fire" by pulling a trigger-the developed film showed the concentric rings of a conventional target plus the photograph of the "enemy" plane. These pictures were developed and graded like examination papers at school...
...signal to back.* Then he throws the locomotive into reverse. If he has a power reverse gear he just turns a little wheel, steam doing the rest. If he has a hand reverse gear he has to push hard and knows that the antic steam may kick the lever and break...
...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...