Word: jars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make. All too often students, taking the line of least resistance, select the field which interested them most in high-school, or the one which seems to be most "practical." Only infrequently is any real consideration given to other possibilities. If today's meeting serves merely to jar the freshman into thinking about these alternatives, it will be worth its length in gold...
Supporting Uncle Dave in the Grand Ol' Opry Company are a half-dozen ensembles with sour-mash names like Fruit Jar Drinkers, Possum Hunters, Gully Jumpers, Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys. Grand Ol' Opry is no ordinary hillbilly show. It is opportunity night for all the balladeers, jug players, mouth-organists, fiddlers, washboard knucklers, accordionists, comb-hummers, etc. It is a weekly fiesta, Southern style, for hill folk from the Great Smokies, croppers, tourists...
Edith stood up with Roy Acuff, Uncle Dave, the Fruit Jar Drinkers, etc. and in a mountain-dewy voice sang The Broken Heart...
...years later MOP was in the hands of a trustee in bankruptcy. Long before O. P. died he would have been glad to get back the $70,000,000 he spent buying into the No. 3 U. S. railroad (by mileage). Last month Alleghany Corp. (now controlled by Glass-Jar Tycoon George Alexander Ball) sold out 150,000 shares of O. P.'s preferred stock to establish a tax loss. They had cost an average of $104 a share. They sold at auction for less than...