Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Still going strong after 18 months, Pins and Needles 1939, has basted in six new numbers, ripped out four old ones, looks better in its new dress. Best new gag: Neville Chamberlain's "if at first you don't concede, fly, fly again." Best new numbers: The Red Mikado which kids the Mikado epidemic with placards announcing a Flea Mikado and Strip Mikado. One of the neo-Gilbert lyrics...
...encouraging them to breed more of their kind, and supporting them at public expense. On the other hand, we persecute the Jews and try to destroy them, and actually succeed in preventing the survival of those who are not superior in wits and in constitution. Thus we make them better and better, while we get worse and worse...
...most powerful U. S. air-cooled engine (Wright's efficient 1,600-h.p. Cyclone) weighs 1.187 Ibs. per h.p. Bigger engines now testing will have lower specific weight, may better Allison's figure...
...Decembers, Colonel Leonard Porter Ayres's Christmas present to U. S. business has been a speech to the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, forecasting the coming year's prospects. Last December the country's No. 1 bachelor economist prepared business leaders for substantially better business in 1939, especially in the first half year. He said: "The monthly average of industrial production was 110* in 1937, and it will probably be 85 or 86 in 1938. It now seems likely that its average in 1939 will be about...
...Chicago's South Side 60 years ago Jacob Portis proved better at raising a family than at selling real estate: his eight boys had to sell newspapers. Milton Portis, the eldest (now 62), worked his way through medical school. The two youngest, Bernard and Sidney (now 42 and 45), were put through by their older brothers. Three others, Isadore, Arnold and Theodore, went to work for a hat firm and in 1914 they and the remaining two brothers, Lyon and Henry, set up Portis Brothers Hat Co. They had $23,000 to start with, half borrowed from Dr. Milton...