Word: washers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Major Charles Dinwiddie, Army Provost Marshal in Houston, Tex., strode into the Texas Washer Co.'s plant not long ago and didn't like what he saw. Texas Washer makes fins for Army mortar shells, but Major Dinwiddie could find not one armed guard around its plant. Whereupon Owner Wayne A. Baird grinned at the irate Major, told him to "walk through that door." As Dinwiddie obeyed, Baird pushed a button and every one of Texas Washer's 100-odd workmen dropped his tools, trained a sawed-off shotgun at the startled officer. "Just double duty," said...
Engineer McGay's system is simple: 1) The rim (which should be drop center) is cleaned and smoothed; 2) the valve (preferably oversize) is fitted into the regular valve opening in the rim, secured with a lock nut and rubber washer; 3) holes and cracks are sealed with cold patches or vulcanized; 4) all irregularities are sanded smooth, especially on the beads; 5) the tire is mounted, then blown up rapidly and tapped at the same time to make sure that the beads seat themselves evenly; 6) tire and rim are immersed in water for the usual bubble test...
...Pascal from turning out a polished and distinguished product is a transcendent Oscar in the onetime cavalryman's lap. The squat, fervent, irascible Transylvanian, determined to use his hard-won franchise on the world's richest mine of entertainment material, not only had to play cook & bottle washer but also had the redoubtable Shavian personality to contend with...
...pantry worker from the Freshman Union; a cook, salad man, and a busboy from Winthrop; an busboy and a truckman from Leverett; one glass-woman from Lowell; a busboy, a kitchen man, potwasher, dish man and spare man from the Main Kitchen on Boylston Street; a pot washer from the Medical School; and a utility man from the Business School...
...King had said that life was made up of loving and making money, but it was a good deal more than that. Life was made up of letting the dog out, of hitting your thumb with the hammer when you were driving nails, of getting someone to fix the washer in the laundry faucet, of Christmas and friends to dinner. . . . It always seemed that, when I finished with one particular problem, there would be time to read or time to think-but there was always something else. . . . From the depths of memory a troubled tale emerges...