Word: craning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heavy as a Tartar's lance," whatever that might be. Our fathers step out into the bright lights of Broadway from a Theatre Guild production, with a soft sigh for days when Thomas Jefferson made Rip Van Winkle stretch his cramped legs upon a New York stage. And Ichabod Crane has become a fixture in America, one might even say a plumbing fixture...
Left. By Richard Teller Crane Jr., president of Crane Co. (plumbing) who died three weeks ago (TIME. Nov., 16): an estate estimated at $50,000,000, of which more than $1,200,000 goes to 4,000 old Crane employes. Amounts depend upon length of service, from ten years upwards, and upon whether the employe retained all of the stock Mr. Crane gave away in 1925, 1927, 1930; employes who disposed of all their stock (quoted now at $17) get nothing. Residue of the estate forms a trust fund for Mrs. Florence Crane, the widow, and Cornelius and Florence Crane...
Long-necked Japanese cranes make a peculiar gurgling squawk. Near the crane pen in the Washington Zoo stands a pretentious apartment house whose residents have long been annoyed by the gurgling squawks of the Zoo's cranes-Japanese, Siberian, domestic. When Senator Edward Prentiss Costigan of Colorado moved into this apartment house, other tenants hoped he would be disturbed by the cranes, be awakened by one particularly noisy Japanese crane (named Anson) who squawked before dawn each morning. They felt sure that if Senator Costigan complained, something would be done to silence the cranes...
Last week, though they had not yet heard from Senator Costigan, the Zoo officials announced they were considering three courses: They could move loud Crane Anson to a special pen further away from the apartment house; perform tonsilectomy on all the cranes; put all the cranes in the giraffe pen, move the giraffes, which, unable to make any sound with their mouths, sometimes have an unpleasant smell, nearer to Senator Costigan...
Died. Richard Teller Crane Jr., 58, president since 1914 of The Crane Co. of Chicago (plumbing fixtures), brother of onetime Minister to China Charles Richard Crane; of heart disease after a nervous breakdown; on his 58th birthday; in Manhattan. A philanthropist, giver of $10,000,000 worth of Crane stock to his employes, President Crane with a reputed fortune of $50,000,000 was rated Chicago's second richest man (next to Board Chairman Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck...