Word: firth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harry K. Schwartz '55 has won the $150 Eric Firth Prize for a thesis entitled "The American Legion: A Case Study in the Nature of Americanism," and Peter L. Malkin '55 will receive the income from the Chase Fund for his thesis "The Relationship of the Soviet Union to the Non-Communist World: 'Revolutionary,' 'Legitimate,' or Neither...
Moths & Saran. Today, such firms as Masland, Firth, and Artloom have all switched over to the new tufted rugs. Besides cotton, the industry is now using new synthetic yarns. Masland has an allrayon rug that, it says, wears better and stays clean longer than cotton and has about the same resiliency as wool. Cost: about $10 a sq. yd. Firth has coated wool with vinyl plastic to make it wear longer; Nye-Wait and others have brought out nylon rugs that cost more than wool ($15 to $45 a sq. yd.) but wear better, are mothproof, and have a rich...
Dream Rug. For small fry afraid to go to sleep in the dark, Manhattan's Firth Carpet Co. has designed a phosphorescent nursery rug (4 ft. 6 in. by 6 ft.) that absorbs daylight and lamplight, glows for hours after the lights go out. Price: about...
...control of Toledo's Air-Way Electric Appliance Corp. (vacuum cleaners). Lamb teamed up with ex-Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, began buying Air-Way stock last spring to gain control. When the management found out about the plan, it tried to merge with Manhattan's Firth Carpet Co., but Lamb blocked the deal. Then Lamb went to court and forced the company to call a special shareholders' meeting to consider adding ten Lamb backers to the company's nine-man board of directors...
Alexander Mackendrick's High and Dry is very possibly the funniest Baling comedy to date, a picture as salty and Scottish as a whelk in the Firth of Forth. A sort of sister picture to his Tight Little Island, this one might be called a tragedy of plumbing...