Word: icemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tons for $345,000,000-a record. Six years later only 60% of its business was left and the electric refrigerator had doubled its sales. Then, in 1935, paunchy Robert Carl Suhr, president of 24-State, $44,000,000 City Ice & Fuel Co., was less scared than most icemen. He had jumped the rest of the industry five years, had brought his company out of the drippy-wagon, pickerel-pond stage, had $25,710,324 sales and $2,972,997 net income. By the end of 1935, other icemen put Suhr at the head of newly organized National Ice Advertising...
...companies began replacing old ice wagons with enameled delivery trucks, streamlined and enclosed. Instead of open collar and rubber backsheet, icemen began to wear natty uniforms and bow ties; to use instead of ice tongs drip-proof canvas carriers; to wipe up water when they accidentally spilled it on the floor, to shun the honest word "icebox" and call it "ice refrigerator...
Clark Hodder's icemen will take on Princeton for the fifth time this season tonight when they face off on Tiger ice in a tilt that will count both in the Quadranglar League and International League...
Clark Hodder's icemen will swing back into action on Saturday night after a four-week midyear rest when they take on the St. Nicks, New York amateurs, at the Boston Arena...
...International League the Hoddermen are still holding down fourth place as the season nears the halfway mark. The Crimson icemen with four points to their credit, are at present trailing Queens, McGill, and Toronto, although they have played fewer League games than the Canadian teams...