Word: eskimo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miles by plane, another 1,000 miles by ship, was Boris Magids, a stocky, bright-eyed little Jew who is "farthest north" in the chain-store business. His half dozen stores are spotted along 1,000 miles of the Arctic Ocean on Alaska's Kotzebue Sound in Eskimo villages with such sub-zero names as Deering, Keewalik, Shishmaref, Kobuk. Gross libel was the press report that his Seattle visit was the first time he had been "outside" in 27 years. Rated one of the Arctic's shrewdest judges of raw furs and hard liquor, Boris Magids journeys...
ARCTIC ADVENTURE-Peter Freuchen-Farrar & Rinehart ($3.50). Book about Eskimos, by a man who settled among them, married an Eskimo woman (TIME, Nov. 25). Book-of-the-Month Club choice for April...
...been called upon to serve as the stage for adventurers fleeing the monotonies of modern industrialism. Last week a suspicious reader, surveying a group of current books dealing with life near the North Pole, might have reached the conclusion that some astute press agent was handling publicity for the Eskimos, the Aurora Borealis and other features of those trackless wastes. Although all the books graphically picture the hardships of long winters and extreme cold, all make life in the North glamorous, exciting, heroic. And all three hymn the beauties of ardent and lovely Eskimo women who run wild through Greenland...
...where he soon began riding Radio from $25 a share to a high of $549. Good Humor's creator was Harry B. Burt, a Cleveland candymaker, who took the name from one of his earlier creations, a clear candy sucker. Chocolate-coated ice cream was already the province of Eskimo Pie. But ice-cream-on-a-stick was new, patentable...
Portly, sales-minded Richard Reynolds, nephew of Winston-Salem's late Tobacco-man Richard Joshua Reynolds, arrived at the building business by the devious route of tin foil for tobacco and the Eskimo Pie, wrappings and labels for ham, candy boxes, ginger ale bottles, other fast-selling packaged products. Few years ago he made the discovery that the foil which wraps an Eskimo Pie can also be used to insulate a house. It was really no discovery at all because the Germans had long used shiny foil for insulation because of its high reflective power. Foilman Reynolds...