Word: glue
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harlan Gustafson of Penn, a towering wingman who seemed to have glue dripping from his fingers in his Stadium appearance, and "Bombshell Bill" Hutchinson of Dartmouth, a resourceful halfback who made life miserable for Harvard ends, were the two unanimous choices...
...running its street cars over their right of way. For the stockholders of the 49 underlying companies-among them the Wideners, the Elkinses and other First Philadelphia Families-this was a mighty fine deal. Their original investment in one case consisted of some horses that went to the glue factory about 1874. They claimed recently in court that their property was worth $35,000,000, and the court valued it at $6,000,000, but between 1902 and 1939 they collected $250,000,000 rent on their lease. Last week their collections ended although their lease had still 962 years...
Turkey. Lights burned all night in the Foreign Ministry at Ankara, where Foreign Minister Shokru Saracoglu (pronounced Sarro-joe-glue) was preparing to visit Moscow. Announced before Russian troops invaded Poland, the trip grew in importance as the week advanced, as the significance of joint Russian-German aggression swept over the frightened Balkans. A 55-year-old lawyer, nervous, clever, quick-witted Shokru Saracoglu be gan his public life at 40, when Turkey's Kamal Atatürk was consolidating, his power, when Russia on the north was far from strong. A lusty, exuberant Moslem (married, with two children...
...ever been fought before, to keep a country together against the black forces of paganism. And it was up to 4,000,000 men aided by the indirect action of some Allies, to do the job. "The Army," said Edward Smigly-Rydz once, "is the national glue...
Capital of the original Comet model airplane company was $5. One day a solemn, blond boy, Samuel A. Goldenberg left the workroom back of old man Bibichkow's tailor shop on Chicago's West Side with $2 and came back with a bundle of balsawood, twine and glue. Jolly, dark-haired, young Bill Bibichkow took the rest of the capital and came back with a scroll saw. Working after classes at Crane Technical High School they began to turn out model airplane kits, sold the first one for 43?. For the first month of their partnership-October...