Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...warehouses seized belonged to Carling Brewing and Export Co., famed for its pure, potent ale, which can be and is bought between Chicago and Buffalo for 75? the bottle...
...fire screens. During the War his plant was converted into a gun factory, and Edgar Brandt used his talent in metal for machines whose extreme beauty was that of cruel efficiency. When the War was over he designed the Bayonet Trench Monument near Verdun, presented by George Franklin Rand, Buffalo banker, and dedicated to the memory of the soldiers who had been killed at Verdun; he made the grating that sur rounds the perpetual fire under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris...
...energetic promotions of Milton D. Crandall led naturally to many imitations. By the time of his most spectacular achievement last week, dance marathons were booming all over the U. S. Promoter Crandall himself intended to start others, under slightly more stringent rules, in Buffalo, Paterson, Scranton and Harrisburg, as well as in London, Berlin and Paris, with the assistance of "Cold Cash" Pyle. Of last week's endurance fiestas, the most successful, from a mercenary standpoint, was one in Chicago with which Mr. Crandall had been invited to associate but which his Madison Square engagement antedated. Another contemporary ball...
Studebaker-Pierce-Arrow. The Fierce-Arrow Motor Car Co. of Buffalo, with assets of $24,000,000, has been losing money. The Studebaker Corp. of South Bend, with assets of $135,000,000, has been making tidy profits. Last week, the board of directors of Fierce-Arrow approved the plans of Studebaker for a merger of the two firms; President Myron E. Forbes of Fierce-Arrow called for a meeting of the stockholders on July 25, writing them that it would be for their own good to consent to the plans. No matter how good the product, a large organization...
Anthracite coal is always put through several washes before reaching the consumer. The Glen Alden Coal Co. of Buffalo and Rochester, N. Y., has made the last wash a blueing process. The idea: to make coal attractive, to give it advertising appeal under the trade name of "Blue Diamond." The dyeing process costs only three or four cents a ton, does not impair the heating power of coal...