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Word: roll (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago, Continental Roll & Steel Foundry has upped production 20% with 200 workable employe suggestions since January. Elgin Watch Co. (at Elgin and Aurora, Ill.) has seen its fuse plant zoom to 65% above its production quota in the two months its shop committee has been in existence. Aurora's Independent Pneumatic Tool Co. has seen a 21% production increase, is hauling in 100 new production ideas a week-and paying for good ones at the low rate of one $5 defense stamp apiece, because the committee asked the company not to pay more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Workers Help Management | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...Roll Read...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAR SERVICE MARKS 1917'S 25TH REUNION | 6/11/1942 | See Source »

...roll of the 28 men killed in World War I was read by the Rev. Mr. Arthur O. Phinney, who directed the service. Afterward the doors to the Northex were opened, where the names of all Harvard men who died in the war are inscribed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAR SERVICE MARKS 1917'S 25TH REUNION | 6/11/1942 | See Source »

Dirty Uncle Murray had squealed. He told how he had helped Cullen swipe a roll of adhesive tape from a 5?-&-10? store and buy some other odds & ends they might need in robbing Mrs. Reich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Little Guy's Lady | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

...armed forces in Australia as are now being shipped, in the same num-ber of vessels. This result could be achieved by shipping the trucks "CKD" (completely knocked down) instead of to the Army's present specifications, which insist that the trucks be practically ready to roll. Boxes containing CKD vehicles are smaller and more tightly filled than those needed for assembled units. Furthermore, smaller packages stow to better advantage in hold or 'tween decks. Such a fourfold flow of trucks is no pipe dream. Detroit motormakers regularly shipped CKD to Australia before the war; on Lend-Lease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wasted Cubic | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

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