Word: levers
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...consists of a magnetic field which slows the speed of legitimate coins but not of slugs. The speed of the slugs is just enough to trip a separating lever, which throws the slugs into a rejection chute...
Boner. In Vancouver, Wash., Leon Hutcheson, in bed with a broken leg, tried to move it, placed his good leg under the heavy cast, used it as a lever, broke...
...title of Editorial Director, waited in his 15th-floor Manhattan office for his successor to show up. The new boss came in three hours late. Said Bliven: "Hello, Henry. Come on in and I'll show you your office." Henry Wallace, politician-at-large, had acquired a lever (circ. 45,000) and a place to stand, and would now try to move the world...
...make that lever longer and stronger, rich young Publisher Michael Straight (his family pays the N.R. deficit) planned conversion to slick paper, color and a new format-to make the butcher-paper New Republic more glamorous...
Seldom had a top-rank businessman given business such a rawhiding. When Charles Luckman, 37-year-old president of Lever Bros. (Lux, Spry, Pepsodent), rose up in Chicago's Stevens Hotel last week to address the Super Market Institute, nearly every word...