Word: uses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hour; 4) Even the four privileged reporters are not permitted to telephone from the palace, nor may they leave by the main door. However great the news emergency, they must duck out through a subterranean passageway, then sprint for private houses in the neighborhood, where they have arranged to use the telephone, day or night...
...rubber, their combinations and what not. Carboloy or widia does everything that the finest, hardest tool steel can do, and many another job. Also they cut at much faster speeds. So efficient are they in stepping up machine shop production and in reducing shop costs, that every machinist must use the new metal, even though its present price is $500 a pound, almost the price of platinum, almost twice the price of gold...
Their service consists of setting the Chemical Foundation going just 10 years ago, of buying for $271,850 the almost priceless German chemical patents (explosives, dyestuffs, drugs) which the Government had confiscated as a War retaliation, of licensing U. S. producing chemists to use those patents on a royalty basis. The Chemical Foundation has changed the U. S. Chemical industry from a whining, rickety infant to a closemouthed, lustry brute, equal to Germany's and England's. For ten years the brute has paid the Foundation its millions of royalties, and for ten years the Foundation has given...
...partners, Harkness, Pratt, Brewster, Payne, Flagler, Rogers, etc. On these, Mr. Rockefeller Jr. confidently counts for support. S. H. B. Payne, however, came out for Col. Stewart. The Payne Whitney and Pratt estates remained doubtful, last week. The University of Chicago (object of many Rockefeller benefactions) was expected to use its 30,000 shares for the-good-of-the-family...
...years experiments have been made in an effort to devise an automobile engine which could use fuel oil, rather than the more refined product, gasoline. Mitten Management, Inc. (operating buses and taxicabs in Philadelphia) has developed the "gas generator," has tested it on 20 buses, traveling 300,000 miles of hilly country. Last week Mitten Vice President J. A. Queeney said that he was ready to use fuel oil in 600 buses, 3,000 taxicabs; advised all U. S. bus operators to use fuel oil if they want to save $50,000,000 yearly...