Word: inde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Titular ruler of the U. S. toy world is William Charles Lehman, big, jovial, redheaded president of Toy Manufacturers of the U.S.A., Inc. Lehman Co. of America (more specifically of Cannelton, Ind.) has been making nursery furniture since 1876. The business is now run by four third generation toymaking Lehman brothers of which the oldest and wisest is William Charles. At the fair last week, the Brothers Lehman's pride & joy, was a 275-lb. high chair, built for display, from which no baby could escape. Even an adult locked in behind the tray cannot overtip...
...John Dillinger has really been all the places he was reported to have been in the past month, he must leap along the central plains like a demented Indian's ghost. "John has a lot of hoss sense," says his father, a farmer at Mooresville, Ind., "but he's not guilty of half what they accuse...
Patrolman Jud Pittenger, 54, was strolling leisurely along his beat on Buffalo Street in Warsaw, Ind. one night last week when he noticed two men coming across the street toward him, casting long shadows under the lights. Patrolman Pittenger saw that they carried machineguns. One of the men poked the barrel of his gun in Patrolman Pittenger's belly. When Pittenger tried to push it away, the other man stuck the stock of his gun into the policeman's back...
...police station at Warsaw was the third that John ("Killer") Dillinger, wanted for five murders and innumerable bank robberies, was supposed to have raided since he broke jail at Crown Point, Ind. March 3. Police in Peru and Auburn said he had stolen guns from them, too. Police in Chicago said they had been fired on by Dillinger at night in Schiller Park the week after he escaped. In a St. Paul apartment house two Federal detectives had let two gunmen and a woman slip through their fingers under a machinegun barrage. They claimed that Dillinger...
...Corp., largest in the U. S.; in Williamsport. Pa., his Lycoming Manufacturing Co. said to be the largest motor-builders in the world; in Wayne, Mich., his Stinson Aircraft Corp.. biggest U. S. builders of cabin airplanes; in Cleveland his Smith Controllable Pitch Propeller Co.; and in Auburn, Ind., the great automobile plant where Errett Lobban Cord ten years ago got a toehold on Success...