Word: trims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...threatening to withhold State troops from the San Francisco strike last summer. He is an arch political trimmer, paying harmless lip service to the Townsend Plan and at the same time complaining to his capitalist supporters that he is surrounded by fanatics. But even Frank Merriam could not trim the fact that California desperately needed revenue...
...unhappy Columbus convention-goers had scarcely departed for their homes before an enterprising young socialite in Manhattan made them look foolish. Three months ago Mrs. Winthrop Neilson Jr., trim, dark-haired daughter-in-law of a vice president of Aluminum Co. of America, undertook to put on a series of radio programs for the New York Junior League, in order to publicize the League's children's plays. Mrs. Neilson wrote the scripts, Junior Leaguers took the parts, Station WINS gave them 15 minutes weekly. Soon National Broadcasting Co. took notice. Last week NBC signed Mrs. Neilson...
...Chicago, Helen Fortney, 20, trim, muscular, 138-lb. girl from Lake Geneva, Wis., advertised for a job as bodyguard, claiming that she is a better pistol and rifle shot, wrestler and boxer than most men. She got several score offers of marriage, two for waitress jobs, two interviews with detective agencies and one offer of a bodyguard job which she called ''a little suspicious...
Super Contactor. Dr. Walter Joseph Podbielniak, Chicago consulting chemist, described the "super contactor" developed in his laboratories-a centrifugal machine for fractional distillation. A fractionator of the orthodox gravity type would have to be 700 ft. high, said he, to compete with his trim little machine in efficiency. Heart of the device is a conical coil which is rotated at such speed that the heated contents are squeezed by a force 1,500 times gravity. Outlets at the base of the spinning coil provide very fine separation by density. The super contactor was de-signed to extract from petroleum certain...
...lovely Tallulah, arrayed in a light green dressing gown, leaned forward and emphasized her remarks by the intensity of her voice. She is petite, just a shade over five feet, with ash blonde hair, and a trim, svelte figure...