Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...social life; Lieutenant Brauchitsch, whose nature was somewhat more vigorous, persuaded his father to get him transferred to an artillery regiment. By 1914 he had risen to the rank of captain. Throughout the four years of World War I he remained a General Staff officer, saw no fighting. In 1918 he shared the fate of thousands of other officers and was relegated to the reserve corps, his career apparently...
...barman, is most relaxed with a bung-starter in his hairy paw. For a week before last week's fight he smoked a dozen big black cheroots a day, drank two or three beers after workouts, did road work nights until his wife came down from Orange and saw to it that he got some sober rest...
That Nicholas Murray ("Miraculous") Butler is a prodigy there has never been any dispute. He was graduated from high school at 13, had his Ph.D. at 22, became a member of Columbia University's faculty at 23. "I saw in a flash," said Columbia's Dean John William Burgess later, "that he would become president of Columbia and that Columbia would become the greatest institution on earth." Today, at 77, Dr. Butler has 37 honorary degrees, decorations from almost every important nation, a column and a quarter in the U. S. Who's Who, almost a column...
This was typical. The first week of war started a speculative scramble for all kinds of commodities; the second week saw the scramble spread to capital goods. Yet most materials manufacturers, who will have to buy billions of dollars of new machinery if sustained war business materializes, were still wary about tying cash up in fixed plant except where old machinery would not do. Nor was the export boom, that has been expected ever since the armament race began five years ago, any more evident than in the past. As Cartoonist Herb Block allegorized (see cut), a war boom...
...from the Kenton, Ohio, pits for the roadbed of the new Chicago & Atlantic Railroad (now Erie). Irritated by repeated breakdowns of his crude machine, he built a model of a better one, showed it to farm machinery maker Edward Huber. Practical Mechanic Huber knew a good thing when he saw it. He got together with Inventor Barnhart and Hayman George W. King, founded the Marion Steam Shovel Co., began turning out the "Barnhart shovel...