Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they put in extra effort." Two of Lockheed's blind workers proved inventive: Ted Bushnell, who runs a parts numbering machine, invented a foot pedal which upped the machine's production 50%. James Garfield devised an adjustment knob and a turn-on switch for his burring roll which have been adopted throughout the plant...
Snacko. In Richmond, Calif., William Ashe walked into a bank, tried to deposit a paper napkin, belatedly realized he had thrown away a $71 roll of bills after a snack in a cafe...
...Labor unanimously contended that OPA's effort to roll back the prices of meat, coffee and butter to the September 1942 level was not enough because wages were fixed at the May 1942 price level...
...alone price rollbacks-can be made to stick OPA has some $400 million of RFC funds to draw on. But Congress, led by the farm bloc, is so dead set against subsidies that it has talked of specific legislation against them. And statisticians calculated that $400 million could roll back the price level only 1%. Yet Prentiss Brown proposed to whack 6% off the cost of living. Meanwhile, with the first roll backs scheduled for this week, no one had any specific plans for subsidies...
Bird Scarer. Short, blue-eyed Henry Moore is the son of a self-educated Yorkshire miner. Henry's first work was scaring birds out of grain fields at the age of nine. His first piece of sculpture was his school's (Castleford Grammar) World War I roll of honor, which he did before joining the British Army himself...