Word: plungers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, spurred to clean-up pitch by Mayor LaGuardia's zealous reform administration, police corralled scores of petty gamblers, slot machine & punchboard operators. Last week at Louis Gitlan's candy store, zealous Policeman Isadore Newman dropped 25 pennies in a game of bagatelle (shooting marbles from a plunger into numbered holes on a sloping board). On his 25th try, he won 5? worth of candy, arrested Louis Gitlan for owning a gambling device. "All luck." charged Plunger Newman. Asked the Court: "As a matter of fact ... as you continued to play you got better and better...
...Wall & La Salle Streets were busy -doing their best to raise a New Deal plunger to the stature of Chicago's old-time giants. From the moment that it was whispered that Doc Crawford was the plunger whom Secretary of Agriculture Wallace shamed as largely responsible for the crash in grain prices, the Crawford legend grew like a puffball. Last week auditors were plowing through the books in his tiny office at No. 60 Beaver St., Manhattan, trying to find out just where the secretive little onetime physician stood. Few believed that Doc Crawford was a ruined man. Though...
Ignoring for the time being the stock-market collapse, the Administration lost no time in taking the grain markets in hand. Secretary Wallace learned that one plunger had been caught long of 13,000,000 bu. of corn and some 27,000,000 bu. of other grains, that his brokers would be forced to sell him out as soon as trading was resumed. "An astounding illustration of the result of individual unrestrained speculation as it affects commodity prices," moralized Secretary Wallace. To prevent dumping of these huge holdings on an already demoralized market minimum prices (fixed at Thursday...
Team C: Werner, l.e.; Littlefield, l.t.; Healey, l.g.; Schnmann, c.; Raff, r.g.; Cullen, r.t.; Lowe, r.e.; Leonard, q.; Grady, l.h.; Locke, r.h.; Whippie, t.b.B. D. WHITE '32, stellar blocker and line plunger on this 1931 Varsity football team. He is assisting Coach Bond with the Freshman team...
...neat little device which gives a description of a woman's every significant movement during parturition. He invented it while earning his M. A. degree in obstetrics & gynecology at Western Reserve University. Details of the Dodek device appeared in Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics. Essentially it consists of a plunger which pushes against the soft rubber lid of an air container. Every movement of the plunger changes the air pressure in the container. The changing pressure agitates a pen which writes a zigzag line on a moving sheet of paper. An aluminum tripod holds the device so that the exposed...