Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industries had production crises: i.e., Chicago's Rand McNally map makers were busy 24 hours a day and all hands worked overtime. Reason: production in ten days of what would normally be ten years' output, 1,500,000 maps of Europe. Rand McNally's entire stock of European maps was sold out 24 hours after German troops invaded Poland...
...nimble Ohio farm boy named Henry M. Barnhart was operating a balky steam shovel, grubbing gravel from the Kenton, Ohio, pits for the roadbed of the new Chicago & Atlantic Railroad (now Erie). Irritated by repeated breakdowns of his crude machine, he built a model of a better one, showed it to farm machinery maker Edward Huber. Practical Mechanic Huber knew a good thing when he saw it. He got together with Inventor Barnhart and Hayman George W. King, founded the Marion Steam Shovel Co., began turning out the "Barnhart shovel...
Today the industry has $332,500,000 of unfilled orders for the U. S. and foreign governments, and good-sized commercial orders. Douglas for example last fortnight got orders totaling $3,000,000 for DC-3s from American Airlines, Chicago & Southern Air Lines, and Braniff Airways, recently sold $3,000,000 worth of big DC-4s to United Air Lines. Lockheed has an order for $180,000 worth of commercial planes for Venezuela-possibly a precursor of other big South American orders...
Boston 4, New York 5 (first game); Brooklyn 3, Philadelphia 1 (first game); Pittsburgh 2, Cincinnati 11; Chicago 1, St. Louis 9; Brooklyn 6, Philadelphia 1, (second game); Boston 5; New York 3, (second game called end of 5th, darkness...
...York 3, Washington 2; Detroit 2, Cleveland 1, (first game); St. Louis 9, Chicago 11, (first game); Philadelphia 4, Boston 9; Detroit 9, Cleveland 1, (second game called end 5th darkness); St. Louis 3, Chicago 4, (second game called end of 5th, darkness...