Word: blueprint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...banks, sacred to commerce. But the smart Chicagoan secretary of the conference, Dr. Lichtenstein, had a watchcharm seal: "W. L." Pressing this upon a hot red splotch of wax, Mr. Lichtenstein* sealed with humorous pomposity a business paper more vital than many a treaty. In effect it is the blueprint design for a giant cash register through which Germany will pay some nine billion-dollars in Reparations over 58 years...
Inventor Sperry. Elmer Sperry of Brooklyn, N. Y., inventor and marine expert, scouted Admiral Hughes' report about the difficulty of fitting a connection to the S-4's "ears." Said he: "All you need is a blueprint and you can fit it before you even go down there. There is nothing involved about an airline coupling with those tubes. ... It seems as though air should have been got to them before. It's enough to make the dead turn over in their graves...