Word: alton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robert Wadlow of Alton, Ill. was at the last moment persuaded to exhibit his hulking 8 ft. 7 in. in his first public appearance. Thus in addition to long and long-memoried 8 ft. 6 in. Jack Earle of El Paso, Tex. Ringlings' is still able to boast THE TALLEST HUMAN BEING SINCE THE DAWN OF CREATION...
...extracted a 4% discount on canned soups and vegetables from Maryland's Colonel Albanus Phillips; how A. & P. got 3% off on sardines from R. J. Peacock Canning Co. in Lubec, Me.; how it got a 3% allowance on canned cherries from an Alton, N. Y. packer. Not only did the Commission suspect discrimination: it looked as if A. & P. had merely substituted a 3% or 4% discount for the old 3% or 4% brokerage allowance it used to ask and receive. Under the new law a seller may not pay a buyer a commission in any form whatever...
Mentally and emotionally, Robert Wadlow seems to be a normal 19-year-old smalltown boy. He was a star basketball player at Alton High School. He swims well. He does not go boating because the only time he entered a rowboat he foundered it, almost drowning his father and himself. Nor can he join in social sports like tennis. He is too big to go out with girls, so he entertains himself with photography. He likes to have his little sister and brother clamber over him. He helps his mother around the house with such tall chores ar washing windows...
Robert is now a freshman at Shurtleff College in Alton. He hopes to become a lawyer and escape the curiosity of normal size people. Frequently he exclaims: "It's not my fault that I'm this way. ... I didn't have anything to do with my getting this...
...Alton Giant, reports Dr. Humberd, has good posture for his size and weight, but droops when he sits. The boy's voice "is a weak bass, thick, husky, mumbling and comparable to the enunciation of a patient with an acute quinsy...