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...nickel of his own to agree that every steelworker have a mansion, a yacht and an ulcer . . . The bill for the welfare plan will finally be passed along to that great body of shoppers (ie., consumers), including the steelworkers, who go out to buy a pound of nails, a spool of barbed wire, or a pair of roller skates for the kids. The subsidized and politically favored minorities will be able to afford it, and the rest will sit back on their thin billfolds and think how wonderful it is to have a Great White Father who promises plenty...
...became president of its second largest one in 1927. Now he had a hand in more than 42 different enterprises, ranging from the Jack and Mule Breeders Association to river & harbor improvements. But his greatest concern for the past 25 years has been that "every bolt, every nut, every spool of wire had to come from...
Sears got into gloating position by putting a revolutionary gadget on the market last week: a table-model radio-phonograph containing a wire recorder. The recorder gobbles up radio programs, phonograph records, children's talk and business conferences on a spool of steel wire, can play them back immediately. The wire can be electrically erased, re-used indefinitely...
...most elaborate equipment for cheating is a wristwatch without any works inside, "fitted with a small spool of paper which rolls through the watch, displaying a semester's notes for any examination." The watch is guaranteed ("instead of passing the time, it passes the student"), costs about...
...Kilogram is a spool-sized chunk of 90% platinum, 10% iridium, weighing exactly one kilogram (2.2046 Ibs.). The Meter, a rod of the same alloy, is exactly one meter (39.37 in.) long. For nearly 70 years nations have sent their standards to the Pavilion de Breteuil for measuring and checking, but modern science has lessened the importance of The Meter at Paris. Instead of using a meter bar for a check, a scientist in a well-equipped laboratory can now determine the accurate meter in terms of light waves, which give as accurate a measure of distance as direct comparison...