Word: lock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Other merchandisers of tear gas: Pacific Arms Corp., San Francisco; Certified Burglar Alarm System, Detective Publishing Co. and Lachyrite Corp., Chicago; Manville Mfg. Co., Pontiac, Mich.; Diebold Safe & Lock Co., Canton, Ohio; Lake Erie Chemical Co., Cleveland; Duncan Chemical Co., Manhattan...
...Mentalist" Joseph Dunninger, who can be reached through Frances Rockefeller King of the NBC's Artists' Bureau at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, has under lock & key messages left with him not only by Edison, but by Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini, who said they would try to communicate them to the living after they died. Anyone who receives the message through spiritualistic communication which tallies with the one Edison left can win $10,000 from Mr. Dunninger and the Universal Council for Psychic Research, of which he is chairman...
...Cambridge's U. S. coxswain, Hunter, and Oxford's Merifield-replacing 56-lb. Hart Massey who was so minute that his crew would have needed a special shell (TIME, Feb. 1) -steered their boats so close that from the bank it looked as though the oars might lock. Then, with Hodgson at stroke, Sturrock and Cherry, veterans of England's Olympic crew, in the next two slides, Oxford began to draw away. Its lead was a boat's length at Barnes Bridge, two lengths at White Hart Inn, three lengths at the finish...
...operators, conventionally as dumb and docile as the hotel furniture, impertinently sprawled down in lobbies and lounges, left them littered with cigaret butts and wastepaper, refused to serve food, carry bags, make beds, man elevators. Smelling trouble, managers of the Book-Cadillac, Detroit-Leland and Fort Shelby tried to lock out the bulk of their employes, but a flying squad of would-be sit-downers crashed the Book-Cadillac, one pistol shot being fired in the scrimmage...
Bonneville dam is really not one dam but two, situated catercorner to each other on opposite sides of Bradford Island which lies in midstream. It has a single-lift lock which will raise vessels 66 ft., higher than any other single lock in the world. Since it is the only dam in the U. S. (except abandoned 'Quoddy on the opposite side of the U. S.) situated on tidewater, it will enable ocean-going vessels, once channels have been deepened, to go 50 miles farther up the Columbia to The Dalles, and when eight or nine more dams...