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Chevrolet and Pontiac have a knee-action all their own-a lever arm acting on an enclosed coil spring. Chevrolet and Pontiac knee assemblies look like a huge shock absorber. In other GM models two yokes with an open coil spring between are used. Chevrolet is heavier, longer and more powerful this year...
...Zoology department has recently bought for about $450 a machine which enables the worker to dissect living organisms so small they must be viewed through a microscope. Fine glass needles are so arranged in the instrument that a coarse movement of the hand lever registers only the slightest motion in the needles. The worker can actually touch the nerves of tiny cells with his instrument and watch the muscular reaction...
...Erie service. As he approached B D tower, the block signal changed from red (stop) to yellow (caution). An air whistle tooted in his cab as part of the automatic train control system. To acknowledge that signal and keep his train rolling, Engineer King pulled down a small lever. He knew he was in dangerous territory, that the running rules required him to be able to stop in the length of his own vision. He pulled open the throttle another notch. No. 2 thundered around a curve. Torpedoes began to pop under its wheels. Directly in front...
...Foreign Legion" would hear of it first and flash the news to the Department which then broadcast trade orders to U. S. industry. Herbert Hoover thought foreign trade was able to make or break domestic prosperity and to this end the Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce was his favorite lever in trying to pry a sodden nation out of the Depression. Before he left office the bureau was spending nearly $4,000,000 per year on 53 foreign offices with 168 employes, 34 domestic offices with 235 employes and a headquarters staff...
Ambassador & Mrs. Grew serenely stood their ground. In two minutes it turned out that a Japanese policeman, thinking to turn on some electric lights, had pushed by mistake a lever which turned in a general alarm. "Very sorry! Must be fixed!" babbled an excited police official. "This accident has happened twice before...