Word: stacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...November success of Chimney Sitter Tanabe, determined to emulate him. However, not a single striking dyer could be found who would volunteer to sit on the Weaving Works high chimney. This difficulty was solved when a sympathetic, bespectacled young man from the Amalgamated Printers' Union swarmed up the stack, sat on the chimney as proxy. The 200 weavers and dyers immediately locked themselves in a warehouse, went on a hunger strike...
...hours the weavers in the barn modified their hunger strike, announced that they would eat bean soup, but nothing else. Cauldrons of bean soup were rushed to their aid. A reporter of the Tokyo Asahi Shimbun scaled the chimney sitter's stack, asked his name. This the sitting printer refused to give. Said he, his spectacles flashing in the setting...
...Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. device last week proved the Pittsburgh aphorism that, when Necessity mothers Invention at Westinghouse, the labor is slight. A company engineer goes to work and by & by the requirement is filled. Last week's device was a machine for parking motorcars in a stack. The inventor was Henry Duvall James, 56, consulting engineer. The necessity was finding parking space for the company's Pittsburgh employes...
...machine, ready for sale last week, is an endless conveyor set on end. The motorist runs his car into a cage. Gates shut and electricity raises the cage notch by notch until another cage reaches the street level. The present parker holds 24 cars in a double stack reaching, with motors and hoisting wheels, 100 ft. high. Ground space is 16 x 24 ft., approximately the size of a double garage...
...grey dawn" states your article. "-As dark as a stack of black cats" states Sheriff Hoover in an interview for the Milan Standard. "Upstairs in a farmhouse-." Not in THAT farmhouse...