Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anyone between 15 and 60 who wishes to insure himself against accidents for 24 hours-maximum indemnity, $7,500-will drop a quarter in the Insurograph and pull a lever. A glass panel slides back; he writes his name and the name of his beneficiary. The time of day is then stamped on the policy (issued by Great Northern Life Insurance Co. of Milwaukee), it is violently ejected from the machine and the customer is thereupon properly insured against "loss of life, limb, limbs or time by accidental means...
COOLIDGE, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbott, the firm of architects who designed the Houses here, are now perpetrating the erection of the ultra-modernistic steel and glass edifice about a mile down the Charles, which is to be occupied by the "B.B. Chemical...
...dullest trick to make advertising copy seem imperative is the fake newspaper front page. However, when one of Massachusetts' tireless, keen-eyed radio "hams" spied such an imaginary newspaper page heading a radio tube advertisement in her January copy of the magazine QST, she took a magnifying glass to the tiny glyphs under a headline GOOD NEWS! Shocked, she tattled to her postmaster that she had discovered something far from dull. He called in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Hygrade Sylvania Corp., which made the tubes, shifted the blame to its advertising agency. The agency communicated hotly with...
...researches, Dr. Jolliffe ran across a bartender who had drunk ten one-and-one-half-ounce jiggers of whiskey every day for 40 years and ate little solid food, but whose nerves were sound. Investigation revealed that the bartender poured every jigger of whiskey into a ten-ounce bar glass, filled it with milk, and drank that. The 75 ounces or so of milk thus consumed daily provided him with plenty of Vitamin...
Though there thus was no chance of vituperative cross-questioning, the unemployment investigation promised to remain on the front page. For Jimmy Byrnes & Co. last week sat back under the cut-glass chandeliers of the Senate caucus room to listen not to fusty professors or census takers but to the opinions of some of the biggest shots in U. S. industry on a subject which every small businessman loves to discuss...