Word: rods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...improvements. For if improved machinery increases output per man, it is perfectly possible to have bigger production and bigger unemployment at the same time. Two examples of this can be found in two of the U. S.'s biggest employers: motors and steel. In 1937 motormakers bought connecting rod grinders that stepped up production from 250 to 850 units an hour, a machine for bending window-finish strips by which a five-man team producing 50 strips per hour was replaced by one man bending 120 strips. To make the wide, light-gauge, uniform sheet steel for auto bodies...
...starting lineup finds Loth Withington in the fullback spot and from that spot he will be called on for much of the kicking. In the left half slot will be Cliff Helman, who will have the veteran Hoar as a running mate in the other half back position. Rod Townsend will start as field-general, alternating in that spot with Hoar. Hal Tine and Ted Lyman are also set for action in the backfield...
...baby who lay coughing and rattling in his crib. The baby had a bad case of flu, as he could tell for sure when he examined under the microscope slides made from the baby's tears and saliva. What he saw was swarms of vicious pneumococci and tiny, rod-shaped, bloodsucking Hemophilus influenzae, most common of the numerous organisms connected with flu. To combat the pneumococci, he gave the baby injections of the remarkable new drug sulfapyridine. Against the Hemophili he had no weapons, for common influenza is still a mystery to medical science...
Lamar has made no prediction about the team, but depth in several positions and strength in the backfield should help make the team go far although injuries have hindered the squad. In the backfield, Robby Robinson, "Whizzer" White, Sherman Hoar, and Rod Townsend have held down tentative positions during the last few days of practice...
Because its soft mouth is hard to hook and harder to keep hooked, the giant broadbill swordfish, one of the seas' sportiest inhabitants, is the most difficult fish to take on rod & reel. Although more than 5,000,000 pounds of swordfish are harpooned by commercial fishermen off the Atlantic Coast every year, no more than a baker's dozen are caught by Atlantic anglers...