Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dared on one occasion to campaign for the A. F. of L. presidency against Samuel Gompers himself. In that abortive campaign Mr. Woll had bitterly opposed Mr. Lewis-something which Mr. Lewis never forgot or forgave. Therefore with the aid of other rebels against the dead hand, Mr. Lewis pitch-forked into the nation's No. 1 Labor office, the pink-cheeked secretary-treasurer of his United Mine Workers. So William Green, a quiet, cautious character virtually unknown out side his own union, became and still is, president...
...metal trades department-C. I. O.'s best hunting ground. Precise, pedantic, he is traditionally secretary of the convention resolutions committee, awes the delegates with his erudition, is often addressed as "Doctor" Frey. This week as the preliminary metal trades convention opened in Denver, Mr. Frey set the pitch for the chorus of anti-Lewis orators with a resounding hymn of hate...
Sounds of the same intensity, however, sometimes seem unequally loud to the hearer, especially when they differ in pitch, so the phon was chosen as a unit of loudness. In the British journal Nature last week Dr. George William Clarkson Kaye of the National Physical Laboratory described the phon scale as "a loudness scale which is based on the accepted ability of the average individual to compare and match loudness." Thus, while the decibel is an objective measure of a sound's physical intensity, the phon is a subjective measure of its apparent loudness to the ear. There...
...virtual monopoly of the propeller business. Lately, however, it and its most formidable rival, famed old Curtiss-Wright Corp., have been seeking another propeller improvement-full feathering of the blades. Curtiss-Wright devised an electric motor which nestles in the hub of the propeller and changes the pitch to any angle from o° to 90° whenever the pilot wishes. If an engine fails, the pilot merely adjusts the propeller pitch to 90°, which means that the blades feather (present a streamlined knife-edge to the wind), do not revolve. This is important because when a motor fails...
Jacob mushrooms grow in concrete, aluminum-painted "houses" which are filled with beds of manure compost and kept pitch-dark. Lumps of spawn are pushed into the compost about eight inches apart. In three weeks fine, white, hairlike mycelia extend from top to bottom. Then a "casing" of loam is put on top and in three weeks more the first white pinheads pop out. Each bed bears well for two or three months. Then the tired manure is stripped off, sold to golf courses as a top dressing for $1.50 a ton. The mushrooms themselves, fat, firm and thick...