Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...type design. (Each typewriter letter is the same width.) Thus, capital W gets eight units of space, lower-case i or I only two units. The machine uses a 300-ft. paper ribbon, which runs through only once, thus keeping the copy uniform in blackness. There is also a stroke control lever which, when advanced, produces bold-face copy. With a new typewriter* and Mr. SpielVogel's aligning paper, copy can be turned out that looks like typeset...
Died. Clinton Lloyd Bardo, 69, onetime (1913-25) general manager of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, onetime (1928-34) president of the New York Shipbuilding Corp., onetime (1934-35) President of the National Association of Manufacturers, bombastic critic of the New Deal; after a paralytic stroke; in New York...
...economic bog. Van Zeeland began by parleying with President Roosevelt (TIME, June 14). Last week as the Premier busied himself in Brussels, shaping up material he has gathered for presentation to European leaders, the King's letter came, as it was obviously intended to come, as a dramatic stroke to arrest world opinion, help pave the way for action. Next day in London the Laborite Daily Herald enthusiastically told His Majesty he had written "a letter which may alter world history!" London's arch-Conservative Morning Post dryly said: "The very least that countries to which the appeal...
...tight as twine, But I wish, oh Lord! I fell overboard, On the old Fall River Line. One day last week the 426-ft. Priscilla, one of the matriarchs of the Fall River Line (water wheels and feathering buckets, double-inclined compound engine, 95-inch cylinders and eleven-foot stroke) moved with stateliness up New York's East River, as if ignoring the ignominious fact that she was being towed by a tug and had only a skeleton crew. Old rivermen watching her passage guessed they were seeing the black stacks and sedate white hull of the old paddle...
Died-James J. Dooling, 44, leader since 1934 of New York's Tammany Hall; following an apoplectic stroke; in New York...