Word: good
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Around 1910-when basketball began to bounce baseball out of the gymnasium-the Playground Society of America hauled indoor baseball outdoors as a good game for kids, added a tenth player (a rover). During the Depression, the U. S. army of unemployed, invading the nation's public parks, played playground ball (or kitten-ball, mushball, diamond ball-depending on the locality). As they dribbled back to work, they took their new pastime with them. Commercially sponsored teams popped up everywhere. Playground ball, renamed softball, became the No. 1 after-work diversion (as player or spectator) for U. S. office...
...Artillery shells filled with gravel which would spray muddy terrain in No Man's Land, make good footing for attacking infantry...
...story was going the rounds last fortnight that General Motors liked the railroad equipment business well enough to go in further, thought it was a good idea to put some millions of its enormous resources into buying a piece of Pullman Co. Pullman, No. 1 freight and passenger car builder, can produce 2,370 passenger cars a year, 74,700 freight cars. Conservative railroadmen shuddered, in spite of G. M.'s cheap financing aid, efficient engineering methods, at the idea that an automobile outsider should shoulder into the railroad aristocracy. To not so spry U. S. rail-engineering...
...European politicos a 70% reduction in German reparations, and who was now & then mentioned for the U. S. Presidency as a public-minded businessman. Likewise it was a fine thing for G.E. to have Gerard Swope for president, because though he concentrated on operations, he went about a good deal, was on any number of boards and committees in Washington. To become such public figures G.E.'s new heads, unknown to the public, will have a long...
...preferred from RFC at least $250,000 every six months; 3) that until the preferred was retired RFC should have voting control of the bank; 4) that all directors had to be approved by RFC. The most important result of the deal was that Jesse Jones's good friend Walter Joseph Cummings was made chairman of the board, salary $75,000 a year...