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...widely over the school grounds that to visit them all would mean a 40-mi. automobile drive. The school and other Hershey companies own nearly everything in the town, including the golf course, the trolley line, the water and electric companies, the department store, the laundry, the roller coaster. With an annual income from its trust fund of $1,675,000, Hershey Industrial School is continually under pressure to expand, has lately piled up embarrassingly large surpluses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Corporations | 3/18/1935 | See Source »

...Gold Coast-Rabbit game Johnny Hallett's home run brought a 4-0 victory for the Gold Coaster. The summary: Score--Kirkland 6, Winthrop 5. KIRKLAND WINTHROP Sieman, 2b. ss., Crampton Peter, cf. 3b., Letarie Parker, 1f. 2b., Randall Caley, rf. 1b., Bittenbender Christophe, 3b lf., Emery Powell, 1b. ef., Leon Moweley, ss. p., Baker Donnelley, Robinson, c. c. Egan Wells, p. rf., McDonald

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 5/15/1934 | See Source »

...Tennyson correct when, with awful Victorian punctilio, he wrote of a dove and a young man's fancy. It is only a time when for a few weeks a man will spend his pay check on poor movies, bad beer, a rented canoe, and a ride on a roller coaster. And all because the shrubs grow greener upon the Lorelei in spring. Poets and songsters have been wrong; but the rugged, hard-headed, unsentimental Angle-Saxons in their far-off wisdom had a four letter word...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/10/1934 | See Source »

...slight, sandy-haired man who gets ideas for some editorials while riding on a roller coaster in Louisville's amusement park, Editor Armentrout remained in jail long enough to pay the price of 50? rather than "50 licks with a black lash" for joining a prisoners' Kangaroo Court. After one hour his lawyer got him out on a writ of habeas corpus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Who Believes in Honest Government? | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

...with midget jail, midget court house, midget barber shop. He will have been sufficiently aghast at the monstrosities in C. C. Pyle's and Robert Ripley's "Odditorium," sufficiently thrilled by the dizzying Sky Ride. He will have banged his bones on the breath-taking Cyclone Safety Coaster and the Flying Turns, a toboggan which makes its twists through semicylindrical tunnels. He surely will have wearied his feet after viewing the Pantheon of the War and the similar Battle of Gettysburg cycloramas. In short, the visitor will be ready either for bed or for a place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Fair Without Pants | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

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