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Boots & Saddle. Earlier generations of U.S. children had been exposed to this sort of thing, of course. More than one house was burned to the ground in the '90s by small boys reading Nick Carter in the attic by candlelight. Buffalo Bill and his Wild West show set hordes of amateur buckaroos to lassoing gate posts and hapless cats. As early as 1907, the Youth's Companion promised boys who sent in a new subscription and $1.15 a "No. 3 striking bag . . . new pear shape, very popular, particularly adapted for quick work . . ." Girls could earn "artistic wood-burning...
...early alphabetical New Deal days of NRA, WPA and the Social Security Board. At one point she was so busy that she was known as "Seven-Job Anna." As New York regional director of the War Manpower Commission in World War II, she evolved "the Buffalo Plan," juggling manpower on the basis of priorities, which was copied across the U.S. An ardent supporter of Fiorello La Guardia, and like him, volatile, unpredictable and tireless, she can be coy as Bo-Peep or brassy as Sergeant Quirt. Running her own labor-and public-relations business on the side, Mrs. Rosenberg (whose...
...Gardiner Symonds, president of Tennessee Gas Transmission Co., proposed to invade New England with a subsidiary, the Northeastern Gas Transmission Co., which would take gas from his 1,600-mile Texas-to-Buffalo line, fan it through New England over a 529-mile system at a total investment of $140 million. Eastern Gas & Fuel Associates, which controls about half the manufactured gas supply of New England, at first opposed the natural gas invasion; then it took part in forming Algonquin Gas Transmission Co. to distribute natural gas from Symonds' biggest rival, Texas Eastern Transmission Corp...
Inflation Note. In Buffalo, a drugstore chain advertised a headache remedy in the Evening News: "50? size...
After seeing Annie Get Your Gun, North Platte, Neb. Banker William H. McDonald, 89, who once lent Buffalo Bill Cody $4,000 to start his first traveling show, had a word of criticism: Ethel Merman and Betty Hutton were far more lively than the real Annie Oakley. As he remembered her, "she was a nice, quiet little woman...