Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing about the young U. S. airline business is that one of its great potential fields of development is controlled by its elderly competitor, the railroads. Air express, by contract with the air lines, is a monopoly of Railway Express Agency. And Railway Express Agency is owned lock, stock & barrel by 70 railroads, which have lost some 10% of their Pullman passenger business to transport planes. With all the passenger and mail business they can conveniently handle, U. S. air lines have paid little attention to express, are glad to pay Railway Express Agency a commission...
Tootling for free lunch and beer in Cincinnati saloons, hotel clerking, bartending, tramping from handout to handout in Ohio, getting his sleep all winter in the Cincinnati Public Library (where he picked up U. S. history), barrel-chested young Ameringer was soon at home in the land of the free. He sold humorous pieces to Judge and Puck, painted portraits of well-to-do Ohio farmers at $20 per, and in 1890 returned in prosperous broadcloth to his native village...
This year Disston expects to come close to its 1929 sales record: $12,000,000 (about two-thirds from saws). With a net worth of about $8,500,000, Disston does not tell its profits, is owned lock-stock-&-barrel by the Disston family, who are hardy, friendly, prolific. Six Disstons work for the company today. Oldest is Board Chairman Henry (grandson of Founder Henry), who presides over board meetings from his apartment at Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford. Head of purchasing is sporty William Dunlop Disston, 52, whose son William, now in the shops, is the first fourth-generation...
...wish to know, that dance music today is merely syncopated, blood raw emotion, without harmony, without consistent rhythm, and with no more tune than the yearnful bellowing of a lonely yearning and romantic cow in the pastures or the raucous staccatic meditation of a bulldog barking in a barrel...
Stealing the bell clapper from the tower of old Nassau Hall is so persistent a custom at Princeton that the university does a profitable business: keeps a barrel of spare clappers in reserve and fines students $30 a steal. One dark night two months ago Freshman John C. Seed, 19, of Oak Park, Ill., eluded the bored watchman, shinnied up a drain pipe. Part way up, he lost his hold, fell 35 feet to the ground. Freshman Seed went to a Chicago hospital, where his father is a physician, with two broken vertebrae...