Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cloud, the school-room's illumination falls below average intensity. In a special class for weak-eyed pupils in Jersey City, N. J., one Westinghouse installation geared to lamps giving an intensity of 30 footcandles* (four or five times the normal classroom light), has helped the handicapped students lift their work well above the standard of children in a neighboring, plain-style classroom. Similar results were obtained after an installation by Alabama Power Co. in Tuscumbia, Ala Ideal for the future and cheaper, urged Engineer Atwater, would be schoolhouses with no windows at all, with air-conditioning and light...
...time of the theft police advanced the theory that the sneak thief had used a stick tipped with chewing gum to lift the bonds from behind the teller's window. William J. Burns Detective Agency believe that he might have wheedled from a runner or other company employe the exact time that the bonds would be delivered, arranged to have a crony telephone the teller when he crooked a finger. The telephone would distract the teller for a split-second, and a split-second is all a smart thief needs. Once the thief had the bonds they probably passed...
...pilot who had flown Thomas Bat'a successfully around India and back, refused to take off for Switzerland. Finally the First Working Partner climbed up beside his ace, ordered, "We must start!" The engine roared. Thundering across the perfectly smooth Bat'a airfield the plane began to lift, vanished into the fog and then inexplicably crashed. Both the pilot and Thomas Bat'a were killed. They were buried near each other in a nearby woodland cemetery. Last week at the exact moment of the crash, the House of Bat'a's 25,000 working partners...
Motoring down to his presidential office in Atlanta's First National Bank (largest in the Southeast), John King Ottley, 65, saw a fruit peddler to whom he had often given a lift to town. This time the peddler flourished a pistol, took the banker for a ride to the country, left him in charge of a 17-year-old boy armed with a blackjack. It took Banker Ottley only a few minutes to persuade the boy to release him, accompany him to nearby Suwanee, lead a posse to the fruit peddler's hideout...
...with rising costs, are still forced to sell their product to the Government at the pre-inflation rate of $20.67 Per oz. President Roosevelt is being urged to revise his regulations on the grounds that a free gold market at No. 81 Broad St. would 1) do much to lift U. S. gold mining out of the doldrums and set it booming; 2) be a much more effective method of bringing gold out of hoarding than criminal prosecution...