Word: flashes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young Vander Meer, who proved he was no flash in the pan by continuing his winning streak until he had nine victories in a row, was by last week accustomed to the spotlight. With more poise than many a seasoned oldtimer, he stood up to American League sluggers like Jimmy Foxx, Charley Gehringer, Joe Di Maggio, Joe Cronin, Bill Dickey, faced only ten batters, required only 31 pitches, allowed only one hit (single). With Pitcher Bill Lee of the Cubs, the National Leaguers, who scored a run in the very first inning, continued to humble the highly favored Americans...
...belts the ship took off. Up it went to 100 feet, then. drunkenly, it began to topple to earth. both motors roaring behind up-to-date full-feathering propellers. Queerly it hit, tail and left wing tip scraping the ground first, 1,000 yards beyond the airport. Like a flash experienced Pilot Walter Bullock cut his master switch to prevent fire. For 200 feet the ship furrowed along, straight for a 75-foot canyon, then hit a scrub oak, swung around and stopped. All the passengers but one sat strapped in their seats, bewildered, stunned, but alive. The eighth passenger...
...electric animated cartoon. Although he has now eight ani mated "spectaculars" (as the trade calls them), on Broadway, his Old Gold display is by far the most ingenious and costliest ($27,000) of them all. Lit by 4,000 feet of neon tubing and 4,104 electric bulbs that flash off & on under photo-electric impulses, the advertisement, designed by Cartoonist Otto Soglow, runs steadily for five minutes, automatically repeats itself, resembles a Walt Disney cinema short. The cartoon shows two elflike characters making love, smoking cigarets, blowing smoke rings ; it will have a different theme every two months. Located...
With orders to buy 50, 100, 200, 500 shares of leading industrial stocks, trading in the first hour whopped up to 250,000 shares. Last fall in an optimistic moment, the Exchange devised a system of FLASH quotations for use whenever the ticker got five minutes behind. Last week it had a chance to use it for the first time. FLASH-X (U. S. Steel) 49⅞. FLASH-A (Anaconda Copper) 28. FLASH-T (American Tel & Tel) 140½. When the clay's closing bell bonged, brokers had enjoyed the first million-share day since May, Dow-Jones industrial...
...Flash Gordon zip and gleam of modern, streamlined, air-conditioned railway travel have been taken for granted for years by cinemaddicts, toy makers, and U. S. travelers in the West. Last week Eastern railway passenger travel suddenly got Flashed up when two of the nation's most famous trains, New York Central's Twentieth Century Limited and Pennsylvania's Broadway Limited, were streamlined to the last rivet and brake beam and made into the first all-room Pullman trains...