Word: macke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, however, a sturdy, efficient and economical picking machine seemed at hand. The South was abuzz with conjecture. The machine had been nursed through long years of experiment by its inventors, John D. Rust and his brother Mack. On one side of their harvester is a tunnel-like opening from front to back so that the machine straddles the row of plants. Into this opening a line of small, smooth, revolving rods project sideways. Carried on an endless belt, the rods first pass through a moistening device, then comb through the cotton plants. Because the rods...
...that back-breaking toil. He learned engineering and drafting from correspondence courses. Because he remembered that his grandmother moistened her spinning wheel to make cotton stick to it, the idea occurred to him to try a smooth, wet spindle on a mechanical picker. Soon he was joined by Brother Mack, who had graduated from the University of Texas and gone to work for General Electric Co. in Schenectady. Their first machines were tried out with encouraging success in Texas and Louisiana. They worked slowly, carefully, rebuffed outsiders, got along with astonishingly little money. Now they are incorporated as Southern Harvester...
...pitching staff headed by Mel Harder and the best outfield in the league. The Boston Red Sox, still in the process of rebuilding, are likely to get into the first division. The prospects of the Philadelphia Athletics will depend largely on the success of 72-year-old Manager Connie Mack's experiment of turning his star first-baseman. Jimmy Foxx, into a catcher. Probable tail-enders: the aging Senators, the dispirited St. Louis Browns, the consistently feeble Chicago White...
Lyda Roberti, with her blonde curls, her smile, her accent and her compelling rhythm outstrips the rest of the female participants in the matter of sex interest, while Helen Mack contributes a winsome bit which will not go unappreciated. All in all "College Rhythm" combines nonsense with some good musical numbers and one of the best choruses in the movies to produce a fairly amusing incident for a snowy afternoon. It can be recommended as a respite from such fly-specks on a Senior's schedule as French 7 or History...
Quick to adopt each new improvement in fire-fighting apparatus, the successors of Truckson La France branched into chemical fire wagons, doubled their business when fire trucks were motorized. They opened a plant in New Jersey to manufacture regular commercial trucks, had to abandon it when Mack Truck and others retaliated by invading the fire apparatus field. Just before Depression American-La France bought out Foamite-Childs Corp. of Utica, makers of "Foamite," a patented powder which mixes with water to produce a fire-fighting gas said to be superior to the old sulphuric acid, soda and water...