Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Des Moines's Brothers John & Gardner Cowles Jr. paid $1,000,000 for the Star and hired their intimate friend Dave Merwin to run it, the Star's weak 80,000 circulation has been pushed to 135,000. Previously publisher of the strong little Bloomington (Ill.) Pantagraph which has been in his family 101 years, Dave Merwin made a place for the Star in Minneapolis largely by pointing his editorial finger at civic corruption. In two years the Star outstripped the circulation of its two evening rivals...
...cutthroat competition, but censorship. Religious, racial, political, economic groups keep an eagle eye on schoolbooks, are quick to howl at what they consider irregularities. After Gary's School Superintendent William Wirt in 1934 charged that New Deal Brain Truster Rexford Guy Tugwell was a revolutionary plotter, Oak Park, Ill. and Kansas City dropped like a hot potato a book of which Professor Tugwell was coauthor, Our Economic Society and Its Problems, and its sales have fallen off one-third, according to Harcourt, Brace, its publishers. There are fighting words, especially in the South, that a textbook dare...
First warnings of trouble sounded when people who took this medicine for sore throats developed nausea, cramps and inability to urinate. First known deaths occurred in Tulsa, Okla.; next in East St. Louis, Ill.; next at Mount Olive, Miss.; then in Madisonville, Tex.; Carey, Miss.; Copley, Ohio; Clayton, Ala.; and St Louis, Mo. Autopsies revealed destroyed kidneys and livers...
...automobile ranks is this week to be seen at Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt, having been denied space in Grand Central Palace because American Bantam Car Co. has not been in production a year. Practically the same size, but better streamlined and twice as powerful as the ill-fated American Austin (now defunct, though Austin Motor Co. Ltd. still prospers in Europe), the Bantam is being made in the old Austin plant at Butler, Pa. under the leadership of a onetime Austin salesman named Roy Samuel Evans who has had a genuine Horatio Alger career (see p. 63). Made...
...from-the-tracks railroader but the next thing to it-up-from-a-telegrapher's-key-Ernest Norris got his first railroad job as assistant agent for the Chicago & North Western at Arlington Heights, Ill. In 1902 he went with the Southern as special agent & car tracer, in the days when freight car hire was a complicated matter of mileage rather than per diem rental. He has lived in the South ever since, married a Southern girl, but never acquired the accent, remained a Republican, always suffered from the heat...