Word: printer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago gunmen held up wealthy Printer John F. Cuneo and his wife in their car outside their Lake Shore Drive apartment, robbed them of $170 cash, $25,000 worth of jewelry, and the car, after forcing the Cuneos' chauffeur to drive to a lonely street. Nearby, next day Racketeer John Benedetto was found dead with a bullet in his head. Mrs. Cuneo identified him as one of the bandits, presumably shot by his accomplice...
Boswell's deleted material was not sensational. Starting the Journal soon after Johnson's death, he sent his copy to the printer page by page, found before he reached the middle that his book was getting too long. He made some revisions and excisions and his friend Edmond Malone, famed Shakespearean scholar, made more in the interests of elegance, taste, discretion, brevity. Malone also rewrote so extensively that "hardly a paragraph was printed exactly as Boswell wrote it," and Boswell's repeated defense of the Journal, that Johnson himself had seen and approved it, was "gravely misleading...
...about $13,000 one can buy a five-lens Fairchild for mapping larger areas. One lens shoots straight down, the other four at oblique angles. Distortion in scale caused by photographing at an angle is accurately corrected by a special instrument called a transforming printer. With one of the few nine-lens cameras Fairchild has built for surveying, an area of nearly 600 sq. mi. can be snapped at one exposure...
While others planned a low-priced, easy-to-operate airplane, Taylor actually built one that has made flying obtainable to everyone from printer's devil to busy banker. The factory at Bradford, Pa. has increased its floor space three times since January and has stepped up production schedule from six a week to 20 a week and is still unable to keep pace with incoming orders. An auxiliary assembly plant operates at Long Beach, Calif, for the benefit of West Coast purchasers. This high-wing, 560-lb. monoplane is powered by a thoroughly proven 40 h. p. Continental Aircraft...
Factory. Each ton of soybeans yields 30 gal. of oil and 1,600 lb. of meal. Industry takes the oil and the meal, uses one or both to make glue, paints, combs, candles, radios, buttons, axlegrease, paper size, explosives, linoleum, oilcloth, printer's ink, billiard balls, rubber substitutes, cigaret holders, Christmas tree ornaments...