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Round nails supplanted square nails; welding is taking the place of rivets. Yet brash would seem the man who would change the other vital method of joining parts to parts, the nut & bolt. As old as the Christian era is the principle of the screwthread, discovered by Archimedes, elaborated by Hero of Alexandria. But bolting is far from perfect. Vibration shakes loose the tightest of nuts, and just as for want of a nail the battle was lost, many a time for want of a bolt the airplane has crashed, the train has been wrecked, the powerplant shut down...
Flexibility. Jealous of the President's power to flex tariff rates 50%, the Senate amended the bill to nut flexibility entirely in the hands of Congress. Aware of President Hoover's liking for this flexing power Chairman Hawley rounded up a substantial House majority to exclude the Senate provision from the bill...
...Beech-Nut Packing...
Racing Committee: Colonel Philip Chinn of Lexington; Arnold Hanger, whose stable has horses like Victorian and The Nut in it; Rogers Caldwell of Nashville who owns Hourless, now in stud, and who bred the fine mare Lady Broadcast that won the Canadian Derby...
...very glad indeed to see that you propose to limit the number of pages. You can give your advertisers more display in a limited number of pages than you can give them in double spreads in a magazine made up of innumerable pages. F. E. BARBOUR Beech-Nut Packing Co. Canajoharie, N.Y. Sirs: Being a cover-to-cover reader I am in favor of keeping the number of pages down. FRED A. ROBBINS, INC. Chicago...