Word: crossbars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Island State beat all indoor and outdoor records by throwing a 35-lb. weight 56 ft. 9 in. Keith Brown of Yale won the high-jump championship at 6 ft. 4 in., moved over to the pole-vault runway and beat his own intercollegiate record by sailing over the crossbar...
Technical high spot of this show is Bil Bal Bul, the Little Acrobat, worked by four operators on 20 strings. He hunches himself to gather momentum as he swings in air, never fumbles when he clutches at the crossbar. Comic high spot is a mad pianist in "The Concert Party." A lacquer-haired caricature of Negro Singer Josephine Baker, star of a "Little Tropical Revue," wiggles and shakes menacingly. In "The Bullfight," a wilder burlesque than the others, a hollow-eyed toreador fliply kills the bull with super-human mag nificence. Plump, beaming Impresario Vittorio Podrecca adapted his Piccoli...
...finished for the first half when, with a minute or so left to play, Oregon State's drive stopped at Fordham's 36-yd. line. On fourth down, Schwammel dropped back for a place kick. The ball sailed through the air for 46 yd., cleared the crossbar by a bare three feet, won for Oregon State after a scoreless last half...
...desk sergeant told him not to worry about it. A guard came by and said, "Don't worry, you'll probably get off with a suspended sentence or a light fine tomorrow." When the guard came back later he found his prisoner had hanged himself to the crossbar of the cell door with his belt. Policemen who searched Oscar Winheld's home to see if he really did have some money, found none. Some of them figured that the Depression had killed Oscar Winheld...
Last week such an inventor started suit against Ford Motor Co. The inventor was Arthur L. Banker of Banker Windshield Co. In 1907 he applied for a patent on a clear-vision windshield in which the glass was held by clamps on the ends instead of by the usual crossbar. Four years later the patent was obtained, manufacturing begun. According to Mr. Banker, Henry Ford came to see the windshield, in 1913, soon used it on his cars. Between 1925 and 1928 (when the Banker patent expired), Inventor Banker claims Mr. Ford caused him $6,000,000 actual damages...