Word: hawker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wildfowlers since earliest times have for ever bewailed the disappearance of the good old days. 'Fowling,' they say, 'is not what it was, and probably never will be again.' Ever since Colonel Hawker wrote so scathingly of the Milf ord snobs -that unrivalled garrison of tit-shooters and shore-poppers, writers would have us be lieve that the sport has been on the down grade. But I believe this to be a fallacy...
Favored by the ladies and their boys as leading aircraft-armaments stocks are Rolls-Royce, Fairey and Hawker-Siddeley. Last week Rolls-Royce was so preoccupied with producing aircraft engines that swank motorists eager to plank down ?1,850 ($9,250) for the new 12-cylinder Rolls-Royce "Phantom III" were told that they cannot expect delivery before February...
...suits." Within a year they had opened an office in New York and by 1869 had moved their shop from Fitchburg to Brooklyn and were making patterns for women's clothes as well. The patterns were sold through agents. One of these, John W. Wilder, an aggressive and imaginative hawker, joined the firm with a brilliant idea. He wanted Butterick to make the masses pattern-conscious with a fashion magazine. Result was Metropolitan, founded in 1869, later changed to Delineator. By 1871 the firm was selling 6,000,000 patterns annually. Ten years later aggressive Salesman Wilder reorganized the company...
...dust off obsolete recording methods for emergency service. Reason was that bald, long-nosed William Fox, armed with a U. S. Supreme Court patent decision, was out of the well-lined hole into which he was cudgeled four years ago. This half-forgotten ex-newsboy and shoe-polish hawker was bent on raising as much hell as possible in the industry from which he had been exiled. In October 1929, William Fox celebrated the Silver Jubilee of his film enterprises. Frenzied buying and frenzied borrowing had made him the undisputed grand panjandrum of cinema, ruling a $200,000,000 empire...
...Mackey's Maple Leaf IV, defended it successfully the next year. With the War, ''Tom" Sopwith began to make a fortune in England manufacturing his Camels, Pups and Dolphins. After the War he dissolved his airplane company and formed a new company named for his longtime test pilot, Harry Hawker, who first tried and failed to fly the Atlantic in 1919. Today Hawker Aircraft, Ltd. makes half the planes used by the British Royal Air Force...