Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time people had the notion that air conditioning was to pull the U. S. out of Depression. There is some confusion among financial writers as to whether or not the Depression is yet over, but Willis Carrier has no doubts. After losing money from 1931 through 1935, Carrier Corp. last year made $507,000. This year Carrier's sales in the first six months were double those for that period of 1936. Last week Air Conditioning Manufacturers' Association announced that the entire industry's sales for the first nine months this year were $74,000,000 compared...
...means of a radio-frequency oscillator a rapidly alternating potential of 50,000 volts is maintained across the tank. Under this influence the deuterons in the centre start to move outward. The effect of the big magnet is to pull them in circles. Just as they complete a half-circle the voltage is reversed, so that they get a kick of 50,000 volts to boost them around the other side of the circle at higher speed. After another half-circle the reversed voltage hits them again, and so on. The deuterons go spiraling outward, faster and faster, toward...
...specialist in trick shots. Walsh's job was to signal 13 more G-men, 30 Bangor patrolmen and a squad of Indiana and Maine State troopers posted outside the store as soon as a member of the Brady gang came in. As Walsh moved to pull a cord which would, set a signal in the window, Dalhover realized that he had walked into a trap...
Unfortunately at the present time it is not possible for the Houses to accomodate all undergraduates who apply for admission. But the Freshman who really knows what House he wants to be in, who has acquaintances ready to pull for him on the inside, and who has reasonably good academic standing is not likely to run into trouble in April. And one of the ways to find out about the Houses is to make use of their dining halls whenever the College allows...
...along the docks. By the time he was 13 he had $5,300, spent it all buying his parents a home. Then he noticed that Jewish onion buyers were having a horrid time in the onion market on Pier 17. Onion salesmen were mostly boisterous Irishmen who loved to pull down Jewish derbies and yank Jewish beards. Having neither beard nor derby, Ben Balish set himself up as a middleman in onions, soon did magnificently. But a truant officer caught him and young Balish had to bribe him $10 a week not to report his absence from school...