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Ootcher Y. Kootcher, self-styled "Hoist" reporter, looking for a scoop, was directed to the Mount Auburn Street obstruction for possible news. "There's nothing newsworthy there," he said gloomily. "I'll get in touch with the Obituary Department...
...time decided to expand his sales force, began by increasing it 25%. This meant adding only nine men, but this is a large addition in a field where individual orders may run as high as $500,000. Mindful that when M. M. & M. bought Philadelphia's Box, Crane & Hoist Corp. in 1932 such methods boosted its share of the hoist business from 2.2% to 15% within the five years, Sales Manager William P. Bradbury predicted that 1938 would be his company's biggest year. "In periods of retarded buying," he explained, "we have found that more calls must...
...Imperial Majesty's reign which is known as Showa or "Light and Peace." The ancient Ming walls of Nanking, 40 ft. high and 30 ft. thick, stoutly defended last week, made it impossible to do more on 12-12-12 than breach the walls at two places, hoist the Japanese flag prematurely...
There is no air supply coming down through a hose, the diver carries tanks of oxygen and helium on his back, inside the suit, adjusts his own atmosphere. Thus there is no airline to foul or puncture, and the diver can even disconnect his hoist line for greater freedom, keeping track of a "distance line" on the bottom so that he can find his way back to the surface connecting lines. If he happens to lose it, he can, according to Diver Nohl, rise of his own accord by valving gas into the suit...
...bout for him with levitation's artful aid; Barytone Lahr's "Song of the Woodman" ("What do we chop when we chop a tre-e-e? Buckets for the well, poles for American Tel. and Tel. . . . The better mouse trap, the movie mag, the mast to hoist our country's flag . . . that's what we chop when we cha-ha-ha-hop a tree"). Submarine D-1 (Warner Brothers). Behind an array of such box-office buoys as sailors named Butch, Sock and Lucky (Pat O'Brien, Wayne Morris, Frank Mc-Hugh), Warner Brothers demonstrate...