Word: hawking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...march into a corner drugstore or a Kodak Shoppe with its parent on or after May I and demand to be given, free, one special Model C "HawkEye" box camera and film-roll to match, made by George ("Kodak") Eastman or Rochester, N. Y. (TIME, April 14). The Hawk-Eye is sold to all persons over or under twelve this year for $1.25. If all the twelve-year-olds are honest and do not go from store to store to get more than one free camera each, there will be more than 500,000 young picture-takers at large...
...those] . . . who have played so important a part." Also, says the Eastman announcement, it will be "a means of interesting hundreds of thousands more children in picture taking." In other words, Mr. Eastman's celebration will by no means be a purely-sentimental one. Film-rolls for the $1.25 Hawk-Eye cost 25¢, developing and printing six Hawk-Eye snapshots costs about 40¢ Eastman sales will be swelled by Eastman generosity since, in the camera business as with safety razors, profits come not from the original article but from the replacements which keep it useful...
...Commerce Act of 1926 which set up U. S. control over civil aeronautics. Never radical, he did not favor, after the Aircraft Inquiry of 1925, a united Army & Navy air department. He took the lead in U. S. commemoration of the first Wright flight at Kitty Hawk, N. C. He makes frequent and long speeches in the Senate on the need for aviation development, for more airports. He has a bill pending to enlarge the Department of Commerce's powers in investigating civil air accidents. He is the Senate's most airminded Senator, might well be rated...
...after the Fort speech, short thin-haired, hawk-faced Representative Frederick Reimold Lehlbach, also from New Jersey but an avowed Wet, arose in the House to answer his colleague. Insisting that the aim of Prohibition was to stop drinking, Congressman Lehlbach exclaimed...
...public-schoolboy, he gives many anecdotes and quotations in these readable 489 pages that few Lincoln admirers will mind hearing again; some that may be new to all except Lincoln students. For instance: when Lincoln was captain of a company (which saw no fighting) in the Black Hawk War, he was once at a loss how to get his men through a gate. Said he at last: "This company is dismissed for two minutes, when it will fall in again on the other side of the gate...