Word: hook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high-brow music's biggest business is towering, barrel-chested Arthur Judson, president of Columbia Concerts Corp. He knows a sharp from a flat because he was once a violinist and small independent impresario. And he soon saw that it would be a bright idea to hook up concert music with radio's enormous publicity. In 1930 he merged with four of his competitors and sold Columbia Broadcasting System a half-interest in his new corporation. Today he is music's biggest wholesaler. In the music world he is quite generally regarded as the big bad wolf...
...March 31, 1937, at Sun Oil's Marcus Hook plant hard by the Delaware River, engineers charged Houdry Unit 11-4 with 15,000 barrels of sloppy residuum after Sun's thermal cracking refiners had squeezed every drop of gasoline they could from the crude. Up went the heat to 900°. Pressure was applied. And as still men and panel men anxiously watched the gauges, the vaporized residuum was forced through the macaroni-shaped catalyst of silica and alumina. When 11-4 had done its work, yield sheets showed that the waste oil had given...
Though America is still far from clicking, retiring President Charles R. Hook felt justified in remarking: "I believe in all sincerity that our activities during the past year have brought industry and the Government substantially closer to mutual understanding, respect and cooperation...
...cooperation was something less than generous. Each refugee was permitted to take along only one mark (40?) and a rucksack of clothes. Everything of value, including cameras and jewelry, was stripped from them by German frontier guards. At the Hook they were hustled aboard a cross-channel steamer, transported to Harwich, England, where they will be housed in an unused holiday camp until permanent homes are provided...
...Berlin one morning last week 100 Jewish children piled aboard a special car on a train for the Hook of Holland. At the German border they were joined by 100 others from the Hamburg area. They were the vanguard of some 5,000 persecuted German youngsters whom a British committee headed by Jewish Viscount Samuel has arranged to settle in English homes. And they were the first refugees who have enjoyed the cooperation of the Reich in getting...