Word: scissors
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...woman who has been a professional newsreader and factfinder for 14 years. She clipped papers for President Taft, did research work at the World Economic Conference for William Christian Bullitt, recently functioned as factfinder to Professor Raymond Moley. Miss Blackburn has a smoothly organized staff of 17 assistants to scissor, file and index clips from 400 or more U. S. newspapers. She does most of the editorial work of rewriting the contents into brief paragraphs in the Bulletin, distributed to all Government officials who ask for it. Beside each item in the Bulletin is a record of its source...
Well could U. S. scissor-makers afford to adopt some such plan for increasing profits. Biggest U. S. makers include J. Wiss & Sons and W. H. Compton, of Newark; H. Boker & Co. (established in 1837, now run by the founder's grandchildren), J. A. Henckels (branch of the German firm of the same name) and Griffon Cutlery Works, in Manhattan. Several other companies make scissors as side lines, including United Shoe Machinery Corp. of Boston, Landers, Frary & Clark of Xew Britain, Conn., Remington Arms and Winchester Repeating Arms Co. of New Haven...
...scissor business is bad because Depression has brought the cost of finished dresses so low that little home dressmaking is done. Big scissor years were 1928 and 1929. People who then would pay $1 or $1.25 for scissors now want them for 49? retail. Big dressmaking companies use cutting machines, not scissors. Manicuring scissors remain in steady demand, but buttonhole scissors are becoming obsolete and cheap German iron (not steel) scissors imported for sale at 29? harmed the U. S. scissor business. Scissors in 5? & 10? stores have done less damage to the trade since they are made of cast...
...faucet marked "Hot." He lives in a "penthouse," an impressive four-room house on a platform that must have taken the United Artists carpenter crew months to make (not to speak of the months they must have spent making hollowed wooden dishes, sharpened shell knives and scissors, woven blankets and tapestries, basket work). He has an elaborate machine to throw a fishnet far out to sea, a trolley to carry him down the mountainside. From a savage whom he tries to make his Man Friday, who escapes after Fairbanks has shown him the white man's leg-scissor hold, toehold...
...four, enough to disqualify him. John Alton Keller of Ohio State had knocked down two and finished fourth, Donald Finlay of England who was given fourth place until an electro-photograph of the finish proved that he was third, was a step behind Percy Beard, Alabama Tech instructor whose scissor legs usually make up over the jumps what speed they lack on the flat. Even University of Iowa's lean George Saling had kicked over one hurdle, the last, when it was too late for Beard and Keller, who had fought for the lead through the first 100 metres...