Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crematories, and have a devil of a time getting the ashes. The crematory people want to get into the families, and spread the high-power selling racket." Editor Witman's solution: Let the funeral director carry a sideline of urns at a modest price and "sell" a bigger funeral. As in most trade magazines, there is a page in the Mortuary Digest reserved for informal shoptalk. It is headed "The Back Room." Advertisements in the funeral press are quite different from the subtle "institutional" advertisements of casket makers, cemeteries and crematories which appear in popular magazines. Some are outspoken...
...Little World Series, minor league championship of baseball, annually played by the pennant winners of the International League and American Association, is bigger than the Big World Series. It is decided by five games out of nine instead of four games out, of seven. In the eighth game of the Little World Series last week, Pitcher Ray Starr of the Rochester (N. Y.) Red Wings struck out nine of the St. Paul Saints, gave only seven hits, won the deciding game for Rochester, now champion for two years...
...month showed a decrease of 24,624 tons and stood at 3,144,833 tons. The industry remains hopeful of: 1) increased building construction if credit facilities become easier; 2) real buying from the railroads after the I. C. C.'s rate decision; 3) bigger demand from, the automobile industry in November. A disturbing factor was the new low price for steel scrap registered last week, $8.03 per gross ton against $9 the week before...
...Front Page. And in place of the celebrated Hearstpaper motto: "A Paper For People Who Think," this was "A Paper For People Who Drink." It was all very gay. On the front page were seven little pictures of Miss Davies, one big picture of her in pajamas; and a bigger picture of a group of platter-lipped Ubangi natives with the caption: "Friends Meet Famous Star At Train. . . . Davies stepped off the train this morning all aglow with hives." There was a burlesque of Arthur Brisbane's "Today" colyum, called ''Doomsday, by Arthur Membrane." Excerpt...
...Banker Fessenden, went into the 'legging racket and had liquor run ashore of nights under Kip's unsleeping nose. One night the watchman was shot. At the coroner's inquest Kip told all. When he lost his job Maggie May became a Prohibition lecturer. She enthralled bigger & bigger crowds, telling about the degeneration of her father. Not to be outdone. Kip got a job as Prohibition agent, visited many a Manhattan speakeasy to collect evidence. At first sipping liquor made him sick, then he got used to it. Once he got drunk and liked it very much...