Word: roller
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...sextet opens against M.I.T. on December 5 in the Garden. The first three games will be played in the Garden, because the roller derby will be occupying the Arena...
...Faces. The most obvious cause of the price jumps was a new tax law, more than 100 pages long, handed to Congress late one afternoon with a request that House and Senate rush it right through. Without discussion or debate, the Peronista steam roller obliged. The law increased tax rates on personal incomes, excess profits, capital gains, inheritances, gifts and sales, and slapped on stiff hikes in excise and customs duties. At the same time, the government removed price controls from many commodities...
...tiny electric ovens-and endless time for minor irritations of dreadnought flying to sap the toughest crewman. The crew's sections are pressurized like bug-bombs. To get from the nose compartment to the rear chamber a crewman has to lie full length on a little roller sled, pull himself hand over hand down an 85-ft. connecting tube...
...Aside from military installations, they are the great cities with massed industry such as New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Los Angeles. Washington is another obvious target. Small cities (below 100,000 pop.) are unlikely targets unless they house a plant making critical war supplies (bomb-sights, roller bearings, "peanut" tubes for proximity fuses...
...said, "are still operating on a 40-hour week. By going on a 48-hour week, they could easily turn out more goods with the same work force." Some plants had already done so: among them, Bridgeport's Remington Arms Co., the five Ohio factories of Timken Roller Bearing Co. In Indianapolis, General Motors' Allison division canceled the vacations of 8,000 workers, paid them extra to speed its current orders for jet engines and tank transmissions...