Word: user
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...working machine held the attention of the American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers at their Manhattan meeting last week, just as he always interests every user of his productive capacities. The particular question which held the engineers was what condition of air-temperature and humidity-is best for man's work. Dr. William John McConnell of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. told them...
Agitation for the reduction of telephone tolls has long sputtered fitfully among U. S. newspapers. The press, largest user of both Postal and Western Union wires, is accorded two cut-rate services: Day Press Rate (? full rate) and Night Press Rate (1/6 full rate). Although newspapers do not use telephones for long distance communication to the extent they use the telegraph, publishers feel they deserve a reduced tariff for certain services comparable...
...whether he brews and drinks a makeshift beer, whether he keeps a jug of corn or apple in his oat bin or hayloft, he instinctively feels he is within his personal and private rights and it's nobody's business. . . . Drop shams and subterfuges and declare the user of alcoholic beverages the criminal and turn loose your enforcement forces against...
...retain the fee to any system of state-wide power transmission of electricity made necessary by the new [St. Lawrence] power development. . . . This would reduce the cost of electricity many millions of dollars each year . . . insure a fair and reasonable rate to the consumer, especially the household user. . . . The families of this state have been paying too much for their electricity and are therefore not in a position to use to a proper degree the many labor-saving devices of modern invention...
...automobile tires. Other Schrader products include metal parts for hot water bottles and footballs, tire pressure gauges, air-hose fittings, valve tools, and the original product, diving suits. The Scovill Co. derived from its purchase a twofold benefit -it secured in Schrader a prosperous subsidiary plus a large user of Schrader metal...