Word: joiners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cuthbert C. Adams (Hill, Joiner...
Theodore E. Joiner (Hill, Joiner...
...chiefly attempts to support its own stock. It made large gifts to subsidiaries to enable them to "write down" losses, also loaned them funds for stock deals. Unusual for a utility, it had bank investments in Peoples Trust & Savings (being liquidated), A. B. Leach & Co. (being liquidated) and Hill, Joiner & Co. It also had an investment in Chicago Opera Shops Building, storehouse for the Opera's stage sets and costumes. Among its receivables are $300,000 in notes secured by South Bend real estate and signed by George M. Studebaker and Clement Studebaker Jr. Another receivable is 50¢ borrowed...
...story begins a little slowly in the shabby dwelling of Jess Oakroyd, a carpenter and joiner out of a job; but it doesn't take long to start Jess on the highway in search of adventure and employment. This deliciously slow provincial Englishman, with his aromatic pipe and pungent quips, wanders into a troup of third-rate travelling players and becomes their stage carpenter and jack-of-all-trades. But besides propping up scenery for the troupe, he sustains the whole show for the Boston audience. The troupe has been further augmented by Young Love, male and female. And when...
...wrapped in many thicknesses of bandage. The inner coffin which covered her corpse was decorated, according to Egyptian ritual, with a replica of her body. On the forehead was the tenon hole which had held the stolen vulture-head coronet, symbol of queenly power. The outer coffin, masterpiece of joiner's art, at one time encased in gold sheets, lying undisturbed for centuries in the dark crypt, "created an eerie effect" on Digger Winlock...