Word: mills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite years of use the mechanical theory has not changed. By walking or running in stationary position on the incline of the contrivance, wheels are turned which produce the desired action, in turning a butter churn or mill...
...practical use gone with the incoming of modern machinery, a Tread Mill, once the most efficient means of churning butter and grinding corn, is now being used in the Fatigue Laboratory of the Business School in line with their research on physical exertion...
...sisters to give him their shares in the establishment, got the bank to extend the mortgage, rigged up a tractor out of a Model T Ford and part of an old truck. Before the year ended, he had 69 acres under cultivation, 1,100 chickens, a grist mill to grind his neighbors' grain. In his first year out of high school, where he had stood fourth in his class, Farmer Bristow cleared $725. In his second, he expects to do twice as well, cut his mortgage in half...
...Kelvinator Co. Monday it closed at $10.50. Opening sale Tuesday was at $5. At close it was back to $9.63. Chrysler bounced down to $52.50, back to $61; American Telephone & Telegraph to $140, back to $147; General Motors to $31.25, back to $38.25. On massed selling orders American Rolling Mill opened at $15.50 (down $4.75), closed back at $20.25. Trading volume in the first two hours was 3,890,000 shares, by day's close had reached 7,287,080, greatest since 1933. Fluctuations were the widest since 1929. At one point the ticker was 22 minutes behind, traders...
...course the apparently minor matter of how sensible it is for a mass of grown and theoretically intelligent inhabitants to mill around a pair of white sticks, no longer seems to be one of importance. It is well known that Harvard students constitute a distinct minority in the weekly storming of the Bastille, but the fact that any are there at all would seem to indicate that some modification of the admission rules might be desirable...