Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ruddy-chopped Arthur George Sherman, 46, son of a manufacturing biologist in whose plant he went to work in 1911. In 1928 he bought a trailer to take his five children camping. It was supposed to unfold into a tent in ten minutes, actually took hours. Exasperated, Biologist Sherman built a trailer which looked like an egg-crate but worked. His family still found it impractical for sleeping, however, because they encountered what U. S. trailermen now call "Trailer Tappers." "So many curious people banged on my trailer to investigate," says Trailerman Sherman, "that I began to see that trailer...
...stove, icebox, sink, large closets, table. A 20-footer may have two rooms, shower, chemical toilet, desk, chairs, breakfast nook. All sizes are neatly outfitted, with wood veneer on the walls, linoleum or rugs on the floor. All have running water, insulation, electric light, heat. Cost for factory-built models ranges from $400 to $1,200. The more expensive models this year are outselling the cheap ones three...
...avoid annoyance by gapers and because the air of Palm Springs is often dusty, none of the desert scenes were shot at the resort but at an unfashionable hamlet called Palmdale, twelve miles away. Palm Springs' exteriors were built on the Paramount lot. Among the highly agreeable music interlarding this inoffensive picture is The Hills of Old Wyoming, which Wyoming's delegates to both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions chose last week as their official song...
Atwater Kent radios originated one day after the War when Mr. Kent received an order for 10,000 headsets. Suddenly realizing that his plant was virtually ready to turn out complete radios instead of certain parts for other companies, he built a set by hand in his attic. Upshot was that for the next few years Atwater Kent was the fastest-selling radio on the market. Mr. Kent contributed little to radio science. Indeed, in 1927 he settled a whopping suit brought by Radio Corp. of America for patent infringement. What he did give the industry was mass production...
...Lincoln, Neb., Henry Peter Reider, 37, chief preparator of the University of Nebraska's museum, found that the rib bones of a prehistoric rhinoceros gave off a mellow sound when struck, assembled a few, built a "bonophone." With the ribs placed on a wooden frame, insulated by strips of rubber and held in position by rubber bands, the bonophone resembles a xylophone, but has a softer, resonant tone. Tuning his instrument by orchestra bells, Preparator Reider likes to play Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing, Chopsticks, America...