Word: leans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Founder, publisher, editor and author of Air Facts is a lean, sandy-haired, 36-year-old Texan called Leighton Collins, who wages his safety crusade with dogged persistence and pointed homespun humor. Graduate of the University of the South (Sewanee), he spent a year at Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, then, ten years ago, learned to fly and started out to be a flying insurance man. Depression I drove him out of insurance, and he tried selling airplanes. For the next several years he flew from coast to coast, from the Great Lakes to the Rio Grande, piling...
Favored with perfect football weather for the last ten days, the 1942 edition of Freshman footballers moves into the final stages of preparation for its opening game with Exeter Saturday, and it is a squad which may make Crimson grid fans forget the lean years...
Perhaps the most interesting man to watch among the enemy tomorrow is none other than the running back son of the Bruin Coach, little McLaughry, Jr. Austen Lake has called him "a lean, strapping 197-pounder with the same angular put-together and legginess of his sire, though swarthier in complexion and a brunet in place of his dad's blondness." That's quite a mouthful, but then this boy will have to be good, for the Bear ends are only fair, and the rest of the Bear line is going to have quite an afternoon tomorrow
Politely omitted from the Druggist's copy are the names of its two principal targets-lean, freckled, didactic Frederick John Schlink, of Washington, N. J., and dark, intense Arthur Kallet of Manhattan. Earnest consumers know that Engineers Schlink and Kallet began a beautiful friendship in 1928 when both were working for American Standards Association; made it pay in 1933 by co-authoring a best-selling expose of advertising fakes and frauds (100,000,000 Guinea Pigs); ended it in bitterness in 1935 when Kallet backed a strike of technicians and office workers at Schlink's Consumers' Research...
Born of the boom and orphaned in 1929, network radio grew up lustily through the lean decade without ever having to go to a foundling home. In only one year, 1933, did it fail to pile up gross revenues to top all previous years. In 1934, gross incomes exceeded 1933's by 35.4%, 1932's by 9%. Radio's 1933 depression was not only brief, it was also noteworthy for being tardy, for other industries were near bottom as early as 1932. So network-sales experts have derived from that experience their characteristically optimistic axiom that...