Word: levering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another thing to discuss. It was a new Durant line of sedans with a "Pullman attachment" as standard equipment. Owners of these new Durants will not have to get out of their cars when they wish to stretch themselves out full length. At the press of a little lever, the back of the front seat gives way, a "reclining couch" comes into being. Durant advertisements pointed out the many uses of this "roadside resting or sleeping room." It "makes traveling with children delightful," enables businessmen to "keep going as long and as far as they like," furnishes "a hotel wherever...
...days afterward, Buffalo Child Long Lance sat in a plane piloted by Parker ("Shorty") Cramer, onetime Arctic flying mate of Sir George Hubert Wilkins. When Pilot Cramer pulled a lever. Long Lance was dumped through the cabin floor into space with a parachute billowing over his head...
...great Trade Union Congress stamps a man as a comer. Moreover the widespread Transport Union of which Mr. Bevin is Secretary is one of the best vote getters in all Britain. Cor respondents saw in his leadership of 'Labor's reaction against "rationalization" last week a popular lever by which hefty Ernest Bevin may presently jack himself up to cabinet rank...
...Primary three months ago Mr. Pinchot won the nomination over Francis Shunk Brown, candidate of Boss Vare of Philadelphia, by a plurality of 20,099 votes (TIME, June 2). Mr. Brown, a poor loser, contended he had been "robbed" of the nomination, sought a technical lever to pry Mr. Pinchot off the top of the political pile. He found it in Luzerne county where he had won 15,516 votes to Mr. Pinchot's 42,075. He charged that some 60,000 ballots there should be wiped out of the count because the Court of Common Pleas, to prevent fraud...
...civilization is use of soap, which ranks among the first of mass-distributed products. But although it is known that early civilizations were soap users, their soap tycoons are lost to memory. In present times the great and only soap tycoon was the late Lord Leverhulme (William Hesketh Lever, 1851-1925) who while he was developing Lever Bros. (Sunlight, Lux, Lifebuoy) also developed the Belgian Congo. Art lover, collector, philanthropist, Lord Leverhulme to the day of his death maintained that his was the largest soap company in the world. Today Procter & Gamble dispute the claim, which has never satisfactorily been...