Word: glue
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government is George H. Carter (salary: $10,000). In his massive red brick plant near Union Station, he heads the largest printing shop in the world. His payroll numbers 4,845. In 1931 he made and used 185,885 Ib. of ink, 83,957 Ib. of bindery glue. He bought $2,692,297 worth of paper on which 88,524,736 copies of Government publications were turned...
...must be cured (one month to three) and sausage which must hang in the drying rooms four months before being passed by inspectors. Of a 250-lb. hog all but 9.38 Ib. goes into edible products. The residue consists of hides for tanning, hair, skin and sinew good for glue, grease for lubricants, bones for buttons, bone-handles, Mah-Jongg sets and dust. Orientals pay more than $100 per Ib. for hog gallstones. The ultimate remainder is brewed, dried and ground, sold as stock feed. Only the paunch manure is not used for anything. And, as stockroom adage...
...repairs his three Packards and three Duesenbergs by himself, likewise tinkers his radios. Wrigley's P. Ks. were named for him and not because of the slogan: "Packed tight; Kept right." He managed to sell Australians gum by changing the name to "chewing sweets for "gum" was connected with "glue." He has not yet solved the problem of making Orientals chew gum instead of betel nut. To do so would mean 200,000,000 new customers already chew-conscious...
Wall Street wisecrackers had a merry time last week, chortling over some wag's remark that "next we will hear of the failure of the Gloucester fishing bank." But in seaside Gloucester, where an ill wind is one which comes from the big Le Pages glue factory, nobody saw anything comical in that remark last week. For Gloucester's oldest bank, the Gloucester National, failed to open its doors, freezing fast more than $1,000,000 of good Gloucester cash. Even in old New England Gloucester National was a hoary insitution in its own right. When...
This might have caused countless horses to turn in their glue pots, for it is the ultimate disgrace since the advent of the horseless buggy. Ever since the horse lost the rest of its toos, it has trod on them to oblivion. Soon the use of the horse will become a fond memory, along with the mustacho cup; and legend will have Lady Godiva ride a tricycle through the storm of ticker tape that greeted her for her non-stop flightiness...