Word: auto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many a hillbilly town. Appearing on the platform with a roll of carpet under his arm, Candidate Reynolds described the spectacle of Senator Morrison driving up in his Rolls-Royce to the entrance of the Mayflower Hotel in Washington. "And when he gets down out of his Rolls auto-moe-bile," boomed Bob Rey nolds, "Cam's footman takes this here roll of carpet like this - " Whist! Reynolds unrolled the carpet on the platform, strutted across it pompously to the imaginary doorway of the Mayflower. "And do you know," roared Reynolds, "what he eats in that there hotel...
Thirty-seven-year-old Cartoonist Gene Ahern, a onetime butcher boy, began his career in 1914 at N. E. A.'s Chicago office where he inked in comic drawings for $18 a week. Soon he conceived a comic of his own, called it "Auto Otto," followed it with "Squirrel Food," "Ain't Nature Wonderful," "Crazy Quilt." In 1921 N. E. A.'s General Manager Frank Rostock suggested that Ahern draw a feature laid in a boarding house. Ahern went to work, produced Mrs. Martha Hoople and her needle-nosed, cynical Boarders Clyde and Mac. After...
...York Athletic Club in 1925. When he took to utilizing the club's billiard tables, it naturally occurred to him to learn the game the longest, hardest way. He won the U. S. title in 1931, held it for four years thereafter. A 30-year-old auto-accessories salesman, expert at bridge and handball, he smokes incessantly, applauds good shots by pounding his cue on the floor, plays in a stiff shirt...
When he perfected a means of large scale production for this new gas, the government moved swiftly. An abandoned auto factory at Willoushby. Ohio was acquired and almost melodramatic precautions against spies were taken. Fences, complete with electrically charged barbed wire, were installed. Searchlights played on the approaches to the building all night. Sentries patrolled the ground for miles around. All in all, it was considered one of the most secret undertakings of our war activity...
...months. Having suffered a sharp set-back during the period when Pittsburgh mills were under flood water, the industry last week more than recovered all lost ground, operations rising to 64½% of capacity. Iron Age, amazed by the demand for steel for immediate use. particularly from the auto mobile industry and construction projects in flood areas, predicted still further improvement in the most basic of U. S. industries. In Washington Messrs. Grace & Irvin revealed that their respective companies were currently operating near the industry's average-notable because both Bethlehem and U. S. Steel have large stakes...