Word: cataloging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Autocar's first catalog in 1898 listed a $450 "package carrier fitted with special gear, capacity 700 Ib. including driver." For the next few years Autocar was a popular passenger make, sporting a propeller shaft at a time when most cars were chain-driven. It pioneered the porcelain spark plug in the U. S., and its thread has since become standard for all spark plugs. In 1911 Autocar started to specialize on trucks, now makes models from 2%½ ton to 15½ ton capacity. An Autocar feature was long the under-the-seat motor, now being adopted...
...strict truth, the debate was not over. During the convention, United Mine Workers' President Lewis had inserted in the convention record a catalog of accusations against the shortcomings of Green & Co.'s administration. No Federation action, said Miner Lewis, had been taken on 46 Congressional bills urged at the previous annual meeting. A. F. of L. had failed to push for equality of wages for women, had ignored 24 studies and investigations ordered by the delegates in 1934. Last week the record of last month's convention was available at A. F. of L.'s headquarters...
Hudson's Chairman Roy Dikeman Chapin, onetime (1932-33) Secretary of Commerce, has been Topman in his company since 1910. He got into motors by way of photography. Hired by Ransom Eli Olds in 1901, he made all the pictures for the first Olds catalog. As Secretary of Commerce under Herbert Hoover, his premature predictions of Depression's end surprised automobile associates who had long admired him as an able man of business. But Politician Chapin was merely upholding the traditions of his office by breathing optimisms of which Automan Chapin would never have been guilty...
...grim part of the U. S. songwriting industry has long been the swift jump to record great tragedies and the eager wait for the profits therefrom. A catalog of such news songs would include: The Wreck of the Old 97, The Death of Floyd Collins, The Hall-Mills Case, Little Marion Parker, The Wreck of the Shenandoah, The Sinking of the Vestris. Last month, day after Will Rogers and Wiley Post crashed in Alaska, Songwriter Freddie Rose (Red Hot Mamma) whipped out pieces on that disaster, passed them on to Ray Whitley, a onetime rancher who has a nasal voice...
...that the stars and the balls of tinfoil we delightedly rolled up would have impressed us much if other leftovers hadn't followed us all through our school days. Cannon on the courthouse lawn; a mail-order catalog soldier-with-bayonet in every public park; red paper poppies for sale in the streets; yearly "Conventions" with men in uniforms bowling down Main Street, slapping each other on the back, singing rowdy songs, drunk at the intersection trying to direct traffic with a cardboard whistle. Later, war movies, R. O. T. C. parades, University Gothic towers with memorial plaques, billboards plastered...