Word: swivels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the first retorts to Editor Harris had been that of Columbia's Head Coach Lou Little, who, having lately broken a vertebra, watches his team from a swivel chair: "If most student affairs were run as cleanly as football, there'd be little to worry about. I've been through college myself, and I know the graft connected with college publications, for instance, is on such a scale that it would put Tammany Hall to shame...
Three weeks ago David Sinton ("Dave") Ingalls, 32-year-old Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air, bounced out of his Washington swivel chair, climbed into a high-speed naval plane, went streaking away to another great war which commanded his intense and invariably enthusiastic attention last week. In 1917 this same active, able scion of a rich Ohio family had left his freshman class at Yale to join the U. S. Naval Air Service. Attached to the British near Dunkerque on the Channel, he downed six German planes, won three prized medals for bravery. He came home...
What interested Assistant Secretary Ingalls in this mimic sea battle, what made his swivel chair doubly uncomfortable in the Navy Department, was the fact that for the first time Naval strategists had so arranged their war problem that the full defensive power of aircraft would be truly tested. One side was made top-heavy with sea armament; the other's strength was in the air. At stake was everything "Dave" Ingalls had worked and talked and planned for during his two years in office...
Since early boyhood Inventor Gaisman, a bachelor, 60, has been having brilliant ideas. More than 1,000 of them have been patented. Swivel chairs, men's belts, carburetors have benefited from his inventions. And inventors are still spurred on by the memory of the $300,000 George Eastman paid Inventor Gaisman in 1914-for his writing-on-film patent. But his most profitable inventions have been in the razor field. He has created processes for making blades, has designed blades and razors. In 1906 he founded AutoStrop Safety Razor Co. which soon became important in the industry. Its chief...
Leaning back in his swivel chair, offering his guest coffee, little cakes and long Russian cigarets, the Prime Minister continued...