Word: inde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Driver Septus Palin, spry, brown, bandy-legged, 57, began training horses at 25 near Crawfordsville, Ind. where he grew up, now has an interest in an Indianapolis stable. He has been trainer and driver for Owner Baker, whose Greyhound was preceded by Pacers Winnipeg (1:57 1/4), Star Etawah (1 :59 1/4) and His Majesty (1 :59 1/4), for the past ten years. His silks are green & white. He wears glasses, smokes cigars, talks in monosyllables. After last week's race, Greyhound was led back to his stall, unharnessed, and fed by his stable boy a cigaret which...
...coasted down a 1,181-ft. hill and knocked him and his assistant off their feet, near the finish line of the All-American Soap Box Derby which they were trying to broadcast. At the crash, timid Mrs. Betty Searles fainted. After it, daring Maurice E. Bates of Anderson, Ind. won the Soap Box Derby and a four-year college scholarship offered by Chevrolet Motor...
Last week in Laporte, Ind. Ralph R. Upton, Seattle schoolteacher who in 1912 invented the railroad crossing slogan: "Stop-Look-Listen!" crashed his automobile into a truck, killed himself & wife...
...seldom find them both at their own desks because each is continually popping into the other's office to argue, suggest, consult. Philip Block is the operating head. As such he supervised the building of Inland's new $20,000,000 finished steel mill at Indiana Harbor, Ind. which, though it looked like a bad investment in 1931 and 1932, is currently responsible for most of Inland's profits. Leopold Block is the financial head and used to be the top salesman. In the company's salad days he was not above going down...
...Columbus, Ind. banker named William G. Irwin had a chauffeur named Clessie Lyle Cummins. When Mr. Irwin went to Canada for the summer, Chauffeur Cummins decided he ought to "do his bit" to help the U. S. win the War. He converted the Irwin garage into a workshop, began turning out wagon hubs for the Government. By the time Mr. Irwin got back to Columbus, Chauffeur Cummins had the garage running as a full-fledged factory with three eight-hour shifts...