Word: hood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Footwear. After trying out fantastic "walking machines" to determine the durability of rubbers, tennis shoes and boots, and finding their results unreliable, manufacturers now test rubber footwear part by part. One machine, which Manager W. E. Glancy of Hood Rubber Co. Laboratories described last week at Atlantic City, has all the wheels and most of the gadgets of a lathe for turning out baseball bats. It is used to pull eyelets out of tennis shoes, a dial registering the force needed. A machine with a rocking arrangement stretches sheets of shoe rubber until they tear. To test the safety...
...Philadelphia last week went plump Paul Whiteman with 27 picked instrumentalists, vocalists, arrangers and composers, to give two joint concerts with the Philadelphia Orchestra as a curtain raiser to that organization's summer season in Robin Hood Dell. Because the Philadelphia musicians play on a cooperative basis, never knowing what their salaries will be, Conductor Whiteman donated most of his men's services, asking only expenses and $1,500 for crack Arranger Adolph Deutsch. During rehearsals Whiteman perspired through a green shirt, puffed a long cigar. Violinist Arthur Lipkin, chairman of the Dell concerts, went through an anti...
Because the automobile in the picture did not belong to him, Senator Borah does not now remember its make. The Ford agency in Washington claims it, by identifying hood&body. But Overland also identifies it as a 1920 model 4. Twelve TiME-readers have decided it is an Overland. Under the circumstances, all bets should...
Down to a three-point at Los Angeles' Union Air Terminal one day last week slid a little Boeing pursuit plane with a hood over its single cockpit. Out of it, grinning broadly, jumped a chunky, bald pilot who had just made the first completely "blind" flight across...
...delightfully entertained," said Haile Selassie, and drove down the hill to take cocktails on the battle cruiser Hood...