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...Federal excise tax on each commodity, to be paid by miller, spinner, packer or processor, and passed on to consumer, would be the difference between the "minimum price" and the actual market price. Thus, if wheat was selling at 50? per bu., the miller's tax would be 25? to give the grower...
...account of the Harvard-Yale game, in the Continental edition of the London Daily Mail. After a short introductory paragraph explaning to its readers on the Continent that the game had been won by Yale with a score of 3-0, the Daily Mail swung into the fray: "A 'spinner' by Yale's right half through the centre gave the first down to the Crimsons (Harvard) at the 11-yard mark. Then Eli, the Yale left half, heaved a long one that failed...
...spinner play that Harvard has used throughout the season failed to gain. On the second play, a forward, Wood to White, gained only three yards. On the third down Wood kicked, Parker taking the ball on his own 30-yard line, running it back a good 10 yards...
...crude device as the hand spinning wheel? Inventions are the inheritance of mankind and should be .allowed to relieve the burdens of mankind. I am diametrically opposed," wound up Cinemactor Chaplin with a Churchillian flourish, "to the abolition of machinery!" "The hand wheel and the hand loom," answered Spinner Gandhi, "are necessary to provide occupation for India's millions. Modern machinery installed in India would
...grey cap and overcoat, with a bulky bundle under his arm. He was looking for someone to try his latest invention-"a resistance eliminator, or anti-drag fan." Inventor Perry showed it: a 12-in. steel disc equipped with four scoop-like blades to be affixed to the spinner (hub) of an airplane propeller. "It makes a partial vacuum in front of the propeller," he explained. "It bores through the air. I got the idea five years ago from a posthole borer on my farm." Most pilots snickered, but good-natured Pilot Frank Steinman attached the device to the prop...