Word: objects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chest simply by tapping each of his miners $1 per month for two months. As he sped back to Michigan last week with the coal settlement in his pocket, Leader Lewis and U. M. W. had once again given public and employers an object lesson in industrial order, furnished unruly new automobile unionists (see p. 20) and millions of workers whom he hopes still to organize, with impressive proof of the gains to be won under his leadership...
...from the necessity of earning a living. Eugene Gallatin was definitely one of the lads in the days of pearl-button reefers and horse-headed canes. A member of the swank Union Club for many years, he was founder, remains president of the moribund Motor-Car Touring Society, whose object was to bring a tone of dashing sportsmanship to the horseless carriage...
...March 22) was Macmillan Co., which last week fixed the price of Novelist Margaret Mitchell's gusty Gone With The Wind at $3. Reason: the book which has sold at the rate of 3¼, copies per minute since it was published last June has been a favorite object of price wars between Manhattan department stores.* Swept back to Macmillan next day like autumn leaves were 35,940 copies of Gone With The Wind, returned by R. H. Macy & Co. under terms also stated in the fair trade law. To mammoth, price-cutting Macy's, which has fought...
...school janitor to take natural gas from the nearby waste line of the Parade Oil Co., pipe it through the basement to the radiators. Parade officials denied they had given the school permission to make the connection. Mr. Shaw replied that the oil company did not "particularly object." A University of Texas expert, Dr. E. P. Schoch, explained that "if only one of the 72 3/8 in. connecting pipes through the basement . . . was left flowing accidentally for 17 hours, the maximum saturation point would have been reached." This week the court of inquiry decided that gas in the basement...
...equipment he has been able to show practically every milestone in the history of photography. Of particular interest is an 18th Century camera obscura, a box with a simple lens at one end, a ground glass screen at the other which showed an inverted image of any brightly lighted object at which it was pointed, was widely used by inept amateur painters. Other interesting pieces of apparatus: a complete outfit for sensitizing, exposing and developing daguerreotype plates; a portable darkroom for sensitizing the next great improvement over the daguerreotype, the messy short-lived collodion plates with which such photographers...