Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weather served to publicize a new word: humiture. The invention of a 38-year-old official of Manhattan's National City Bank, Osborne Fort Hevener, it was first used by his friend Frank L. Baldwin in the weather column of the Newark Evening News. Humiture is a combination of temperature and humidity, computed by adding the readings for both and dividing by two. Weathermen called it a "fool word" but according to Mr. Hevener (who last week escaped the humiture by motoring to Quebec) this figure "gives the man in the street a better index of the summertime torture...
Meeting in Chicago to hear the fact-findings of 35 subcommittees, 145 members of Dr. Glenn Frank's committee, whose job is to draft a Republican program for 1940, found their liveliest inspiration in a statue. Presented by the committee's secretary-pressagent, Journalist William Hard, to G. 0. P. Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, it portrayed a streamlined elephant, charging and trumpeting, tusks up, ears back, tail flying, was inscribed, "Let's G. O. Places." In August 1927, Calvin Coolidge, summering in the Black Hills, renounced third-term aspirations by handing out a little slip...
...Motion Picture Democratic Committee (Dashiell Hammett, Paul Muni, Miriam Hopkins, Fredric March, Melvyn Douglas, Donald Ogden Stewart et al.) telegraphed to Republican Governor Frank Merriam: "FOUR YEARS AGO WE . . . HAD TO CONTRIBUTE A DAY'S PAY TO YOUR CAMPAIGN FUND TO SAVE CALIFORNIA
Employes of Phillips Petroleum Co. refer to it as "Phillips Pete." Sharp-eyed Founder Frank Phillips, now chairman, is called "Uncle Frank." Heavy-set President K. S. Adams has been titled "Boots" ever since he went wading in a Kansas City flood. Slight, bespectacled President Thomas B. Hudson of The Polymerization Process Corp., Phillips Pete's favorite offspring, answers to "Tubby." This nicknamed outfit last week registered $25,000,000 in debentures with SEC. Wall Street was sure they would have an easy sale-for in polymerization, Phillips Pete is fathering the latest technique in gasoline manufacture...
...their patents under The Polymerization Process Corp., which leases the process. Last fall Phillips Pete put up two massive polymerization units at Kansas City and Borger, Texas, baffled the oil world by turning out 100 octane gas in quantity too great for any known U. S. use. All Chairman Frank Phillips will say is that "the total output is being sold abroad to a foreign government." Eventually, Oilman Phillips expects automobile engines to be adapted to use 100 octane fuel...