Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Looking like a giant's roller skate (see cut), the Marsh Buggy has an ordinary Ford V-8 motor coupled to a McCormick Deering tractor gear box and mounted on an expanded automobile frame. The four wheels are air-tight aluminum drums on which are mounted the largest rubber tires ever made for commercial use. Designed by Goodyear, they are 10 ft. high, 3 ft. wide, have a normal pressure of 6 lb. per sq. in. Both axles are pivoted so that each wheel can rise two feet without distorting the frame. There are ten forward speeds, six reverse...
...Whitehead, one of Madison Street's great grey-derby-&-checked-veit comics 30 years ago, this character is a veteran ham determined to spend lots of government money on actors in spite of the "Secretary of the Budget," Al Smith, the Liberty League and an unrealistically tight-fisted committee of U. S. Senators. Very much on the awful, side of O Say Can You Sing? are some of the unbelievably corn-fed wisecracks which Librettists Sid Kuller and Ray Golden expect Comedian Whitehead to put across. Inviting a "fine feathered frenzy" to "cut himself a piece of throat...
Playing a tight man to man defense, they use a fast break which will confront the Feslermen with the exact sort of play with which they will be faced in the major games with Penn and Yale...
...Racine, Wis. last week directors of J. I. Case Co. (farm machinery) voted a 6% bonus to all of its 1,700 employes who should be at work on Dec. 1. Joker was that the Case plant had been shut tight since Oct. 27, had no immediate prospect of reopening...
...Schwab's U. S. Shipbuilding Co., which sold it back to General Hyde's son in 1905. At the top of the Wartime ship-building boom the Hydes again sold out, a move which proved very smart indeed, for by 1925 Bath Iron Works was closed down tight. It stayed closed, except for a brief period of use as a fibre goods plant, until 1927. Then it was taken over by William Stark Newell, a seasoned shipbuilder who had done a turn in the Bath Iron Works as a riveter during a summer vacation from Massachusetts Institute...