Word: tinkered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chauncey Brewster Tinker, author, Sterling Professor of English Literature at Yale University, has been appointed Charles Elliot Norton Professor of Poetry for the 1937-38 academic year, it was announced last night...
Designer Seversky then stripped his amphibian of its pontoons, entered it in an Army trainer competition. Despite jeers from other competitors, it won a contract for 35 planes at a cost of $874,000. Designer Seversky continued to tinker his plane, last June produced a pursuit model which is said to be among the world's fastest, with a top speed of nearly 300 m.p.h. After a competition at Dayton, the Army bought...
Another phase of Equity Corp.'s history before the advent of either Truster Groves or David Milton concerned a predecessor trust called Interstate Equities, originally a $25,000,000 concern sponsored by Bancamerica-Blair Corp. That meant it was managed by such Wall Street bigwigs as Edward Richmond Tinker, Hunter Sylvester Marston and Elisha Walker. Bancamerica-Blair used to cut its affiliated trust into pools and syndicates with the result that Interstate dropped no less than $5,000,000. Messrs. Tinker, Marston & Walker also managed to lose another $13,000,000 in Interstate's ordinary stock and bond...
...Money corrupts his native talents as well as his good nature, eventually kills him. Dos Passos frames the story of Anderson with thumbnail sketches of Henry Ford, Frederick Winslow Taylor, inventor of scientific management; and Thorstein Veblen. Like Ford, Charley Anderson had native mechanical skill, loved to tinker with machines. Like Taylor, he suffered because he tried to speed up production, to make manufacture efficient, and shrank from the resulting hostility of workmen. Veblen, a lifelong student of the conflict between production and finance, who saw the constant "sabotage of production by business," adds an ironic footnote to Charley...
...selected as the best soaring spot in the U. S. because its prevailing west winds are deflected upwards in successive strata by the huge petrified surf of the Chemung Hills, soarers last week camped in tents below the knolls from which their ships were launched, helped each other tinker their craft, chattered over picnic fires. Major topic of three-dimensional sailing enthusiasts, like that of yachtsmen, is the weather. Because the weather at Elmira for the last three years has been disappointing, pilots discussed moving their annual meet to Ellenville, N. Y., in the Catskills. After one painfully calm...