Word: hawked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer of 1932 United Fruit stock was selling for $10.25 a share and Sam Zemurray's stake had shriveled to some $2,000,000. Earnings for the first six months of that year were a miserly 51? a share. So the towering, hawk-nosed banana man marched into a United Fruit board meeting with a fist full of proxies and stock certificates and shocked eminent Bostonian directors with a curt demand for power. He got it. They made him "Managing Director in Charge of Operations." From Boston to Bogota the United Fruit organization began to learn what...
...Commercialization of contraceptives has ceased to be clandestine. Stella Bloch Hanau of the Birth Control Review says that in the vicinity of New York alone 300 manufacturers are making contraceptives of one sort or another. Peddlers hawk material on subway platforms. A 1932 survey of western Florida showed that one form of contraceptive was being sold in 376 gasoline stations, garages, restaurants, soda fountains, barber shops, pool rooms, cigar stands, news stands, shoe shine parlors, grocery stores. Slot machines for dispensing exist in several states. Contraceptives are now advertised in such magazines as Outdoor Life, Eagle Magazine, Illustrated Mechanics...
Tiptoeing cautiously ahead of her automobile a hawk-nosed British dowager in a mink coat prowled down the middle of the street. ''Come on, Oscar, come on, we seem to be in the Strand!" cried...
Nine days before Orville Wright made his first flight 30 years ago last month at Kitty Hawk, N. C., the late Samuel Pierpont Langley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, had a four-winged flying machine called the Dragon Fly ready to take off from the top of a houseboat in the Potomac River. With a mighty chug-chugging the contraption reared up, flopped into the water. Several years later the Dragon Fly was patched up and flown. The Smithsonian secured it for exhibit, labeled it "... The First Machine Capable of Flight Carrying a Man." Enraged, the Wright Brothers refused...
...than most of its predecessors, being saved by the ingenious idea of having a father unaware of his high school daughter's fallen state and a daughter unaware of her conference-attending father's peccadilloes recognize each other on the brink of incest. The quick swoop of the lustful hawk onto his defenceless prey and the horror of the ensuing recognition provide a few tense moments in the long and wearisome record of the ruination of Ann Dixon...