Word: levering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...railroads from the Aberdeen & Rockfish to the Yreka Western, all conventional locomotives have what engineers call a ''Johnson bar" -a manually-operated seven-foot steel lever which puts the locomotive either in reverse or forward motion and also controls the flow of new steam into the boilers to adjust speed. On small engines the Johnson bar causes no trouble, has been used for 50 years without improvement. When bigger engines began to appear 20 years ago, however, handling the bar became back-breaking work and the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers and of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen began agitating...
...Germany "make Wartime propaganda stories look like bedtime tales" (TIME, May 31), has this crucial issue: Shall the Reich or shall the Catholic Church educate Germany's 2,000,000 or so Catholic children? Catholics hold that Hitler's campaign against monkish immorality is merely a lever to topple the entire German Catholic Church into a sewer of disrepute...
Cable cars look like the Toonerville Trolley, have open sides with seats facing out (which bothers women with short skirts on San Francisco's frequent gusty days). In the middle stands the gripman holding a lever like an oversized emergency brake. It goes through the floor and under the street through a slot, where it grips an endless line of steel cable an inch and a half wide moving at 8 m.p.h. When the gripman grips, the cable car moves steadily up the steepest hill, protected by three sets of brakes. Busiest cable car is the Powell Street line...
...hired men in Boston are apparently Mahlon E. Traylor, who was paid $216,505 by Massachusetts Distributors. Inc., sales agency for stock in Massachusetts Investors Trust, and Francis Albert Countway, a retiring bachelor with a fondness for badminton, whose knowledge of the soap business was worth $286,995 to Lever Bros...
...Yeager of the Department of Agriculture projected on a screen a cardiogram from the beating heart of a cockroach. This was obtained by exposing the heart of the insect and placing on it a minute drop of wax. A human hair inserted in the wax was connected through a lever to a fine wire. The heart beats thus jerked the wire and a light beam passing across it translated them into a pulsating graph. The Department uses this method to study the cardiac effect of insecticides...