Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year 63 employes of Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. seized that concern's plants at North Chicago, Ill. Against police assaults and court commands to vacate, they held fast until Fansteel's lawyer devised a portable _ wooden tower, enabled officers to douse the sit-downers with nauseating gas. Last September, the National Labor Relations Board declined to concede that subsequent conviction of 37 strikers and two C. I. O. leaders on contempt of court charges in any way affected workers' rights under the Wagner Act. By directing Fansteel to re-employ the strikers, recognize their union, the board...
...family heirloom, the result of two or three years of painstaking labor. First the tree trunk is scooped out with a mattock and fire, then chipped with a hand-ax and machete, finally scraped with a piece of broken glass until it is as smooth as a wooden salad bowl...
...experimental DC-4 which will take to the air next week is really the fourth DC-4. First was a "mock-up"-a full-sized wooden replica, exact in every detail, for a study of space requirements, load placement, general structure. DC-4 No. 2 was a perfect scale model, with 8 ft. 3 in. wingspan. This Lilliputian transport "flew" through 1,100 hours and $25,000 worth of wind tunnel tests at the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at Caltech. Third stage was a Spanish Inquisition by Douglas engineers, who systematically squeezed, banged, shook, stretched, heated, froze, destroyed every part, every...
...bare wooden stage of Sanders Theatre, flanked by plaster replicas of modern statesmen draped in 19th century pseudo-classical togas, was transformed into an imitation of the Athenian theatre last night as the Poet's Theatre staged the "Alcestis" of Euripides. The performance was the world premiere of a new version of the classic by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald and it is too bad that last night it was not possible to get an accurate impression of the quality of their work. This was so mainly because the choruses were sung by female voices, the clarity...
...Carnegie left off in 1929, when she blew up in Apia Harbor, Samoa. Threefold purpose of the Research will be to chart unsounded depths, to study atmospheric electricity, to find out what makes the North Pole attractive to compass needles. A 20th-century anachronism, the Research is a wooden sailing vessel, nonmagnetic in every possible detail. Her hull is of teak; bolts, girders and anchor chain of bronze; rigging will be of nonmagnetic alloys. If her sailors wish, as all good sailormen do, to carry jack-knives, the knives must be of nonmagnetic metal...