Word: ratchet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene is accompanied by an din on rival Fibber McGee's , the percussion including drums, cymbals, xylophone, woodblocks, ratchet, and everything but the kitchen . But Amram's songs are fine, including one that he had turned into 9 three-voice canzonet...
...battery. The energized coils react with the magnets and keep the fork vibrating at a steady 360 cycles per second, giving a musical note a little higher than F above middle C. Each vibration pushes a jewel-tipped spring against a pinhead-sized wheel whose rim has 300 microscopic ratchet teeth. The turning of this wheel moves the hands of the watch through a conventional gear train. Bulova guarantees that its electronic watch, which it calls the Accutron. will not gain or lose more than one minute per month. Price of present-model watches...
...mpressive as the show itself is its young analyst-narrator, Charles Kuralt, 25, who wrote a human interest column for the Charlotte, N.C. News before CBS hired him. A deep-voiced Carolina Cronkite with more than a little Murrow in his bones, he has one of those low-ratchet, radioactive voices that sound like a roulette wheel stopping...
...Ratchet. Moreover, inflation may well be here to stay. Says Schultze: "A massive depression like that of the 19303 would surely break through the rigidities in the price-cost structure and force wage and price declines." But the U.S. economy of 1960 is so strongly committed to full employment and has so many built-in stabilizers that there is little chance of a big enough drop. The U.S. has managed to even out the sharpest swings in its economic cycle, but in so doing it has also put a "ratchet" under prices and costs, thus preventing them from going down...