Word: levers
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...sign appeared that Adolf Hitler would sign. On the assumption that he would not, German editors, despite the close government press control, evinced fear. Said the Berlin businessman's Börsenzeitung: "France has every opportunity to assault us, using her alliance with the Soviet as a lever, without having to fear British intervention." If Germany chooses to sign for Peace, France has no such opportunity...
Twenty-five seconds after a Photomatic customer in the booth deposits 25? and pulls a lever, his finished picture, framed in light metal, drops out into a receptacle. This speed is accomplished by exposing three-inch circles of sensitized paper already framed. Immediately after exposure the discs are shot into a developing chamber, sprayed by six chemicals which develop a positive print. The print is not quite dry when the ejecting mechanism shoots it out to the customer...
Terraplanef Hudson's fast-selling lowest-priced line, also has an "electric hand" available on all models. Elimination of the gear lever makes all sedan models comfortable for six passengers...
...lady of leisure. Thurston Hall, who bears a close resemblance to Herbert Heover is excellent at all times, and particularly in the scene in which he drinks to forget that seen his wealth will be confiscated by the damn Communists Ben Smith, as Rand Fliridge, is awkard as a lever, and seems ill at case in the role Jose Ruben is splendid...
...grand French finale, after the flogging, the "executioner" pulls the lever of the guillotine. The blade is so arranged that it stops with a gruesome thump just short of the flogged poule's neck, but excited tourists are found to relish the sadistic idea that it might fall all the way. Female spectators invariably scream. To prove that she has actually been flogged, the poule invites attention to the welts on her thrashed posterior, solicits tips...