Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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DURING the last four years a vast change has come over New England. Four years ago the snow fell, crusted and melted on many an excellent hill near Boston without a single ski having broken its surface. Skiing was a sport for fools or experts. There evidently was no way in which a man in the first category could progress to the second. A few of us kept persistently at it, but learning came slowly. The few skiing manuals on hand were written in French of Norwegian and the latter technique is next to impossible to master without personal instruction...
...evening with Governor Ritchie at the Illinois Manufacturers Banquet at the Stevens Hotel, Chicago last December. Mr. Kettering confessed criticism of his definition, offered a new one: "a method of finding out what people will be wanting when they are through wanting what they are wanting now." R. H. HILL...
...Subscriber Hill, thanks for an able piece of up-to-dating...
...extend its benefits to the whole student body. It is still perhaps too soon for Professor Spalding's work to be summarized adequately, but the main outlines of his achievements are to be found throughout the country wherever music has its proper place among the liberal arts. Edward B. Hill...
Meanwhile George Washington Hill, whose spectacular year of personal accomplishment was 1930 (during which his American Tobacco Co. first exceeded the highest net earnings of the entire, old monopolistic American Tobacco Co.), remained greatest tobacco earner. His 1930 earnings-$43,298,000-topped Reynolds by $9,000,000; and last month he said that the first ten months of 1931 had been more profitable than the corresponding months of 1930. Yet if cellophane wrapping be accepted as great 1931 cigaret milestone, Mr. Hill with about 20,000,000 advertising dollars played second fiddle to Mr. Williams with probably not more...