Word: machinistic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wanted the money delivered. The ladder by which he climbed to the Lindbergh nursery was of careful, home-made construction, and a New York City toxicologist, examining ransom money as it came in, found emery dust and glycerine esters. Hence the man was likely to be a carpenter or machinist who ground his own tools. Judging from the ladder's broken rung, the man's weight was put at somewhere near 160 lb. From vague descriptions given by a taxi-driver who had taken the third ransom note to "Jafsie" Condon and from Condon's own recollections...
...unions have such a big job in preventing war that this quotation from an advertisement of the Cleveland Automatic Machine Co. printed in American Machinist is appropriate. The Cleveland Co. is boosting their new high explosive shells...
...readers who turned to current issues of American Machinist for the original advertisement failed to find it. Asked where he got it last week, Columnist Lore explained that he had quoted it from an editorial column in the Kern County Union Labor Journal, edited in Bakersfield, Calif, by one Wallace Watson. Editor Watson said he had picked up the text of the advertisement from a column in the April issue of the New Leader written by Socialist Norman Thomas...
...means by which they may die in the next war." Columnist Thomas had received the text from one Alan Clark, active member of the Socialist Party in Berkeley, Calif. It came typewritten on a plain piece of paper headed: "Facsimile of an advertisement appearing in the American Machinist...
What Columnist Lore, Editor Watson, Columnist Thomas and Socialist Clark did not know, or deliberately failed to mention, was that the explosive shell advertisement had appeared in American Machinist just once-on May 6, 1915. Its publication then caused a great popular outcry which aroused the U. S. State Department and caused Secretary of Commerce Redfield to deal a stinging rebuke to American Machinist. Few months ago it was reprinted, in its true historical seating, in the book Merchants of Death by Engelbrecht & Hanighen (TIME...