Word: starter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, U. A. W.'s self-starter began to turn the engine over, putting pressure on motor makers for a 32-hour week to spread-the-work. Result: a strike of 6,000 workers, shutting down Chrysler Corp.'s Plymouth factory in Detroit, and throwing out of work 9,000 Briggs Body Co. workers...
Nobel Prizewinner Irving Langmuir and X-ray Expert William David Coolidge of General Electric Co. received $16.000 and $21,500 respectively. General Motors' celebrated Charles Franklin ("Boss") Kettering, acknowledged father of the automobile self-starter, did not figure in the investigation because he, curiously enough, has received no star for distinguished research...
...than at sea level. Last week scientists attending the Fifth International Congress for Applied Mechanics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggested a way to improve propeller performance in the substratosphere: bigger propellers, designed to take bigger bites of air to make up for slower turning speed. For a starter they suggested 20-foot propellers, nearly twice the size of the largest...
...hills of Kentucky's Harlan County, one day three years ago, a crusading prosecuting attorney named Elmon Middleton climbed into his coupe, stepped on the starter, blew himself to Kingdom Come. One of 18 sticks of dynamite wired to his engine had gone off. That "accident" and a whole bumper crop of anti-labor sluggings, shootings and gaggings made Harlan's rich coal veins throb with miners' blood. Last year, the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee tried applying a tourniquet; but bloody Harlan proved hemophilic...
...January morning Investigator Raymond stepped into his car, touched the starter, was blown out of his garage by a crude pipe bomb wired under the hood. Investigator Raymond, who recovered after 150 pieces of steel and glass had been picked out of him, had much to tell his old friends on the homicide squad. Investigator Raymond and Lawyer Rose had been digging into the connections between the Shaw administration and the city's biggest gamblers. Some of these, according to witnesses Lawyer Rose put on the stand, had given Harry Munson-henchman and onetime campaign manager of Mayor Frank...