Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another next day in Cleveland for Ohio locals-in order to make union men choose which side they would meet with. But having announced his intention to keep his Detroit meeting going until midnight if necessary to put deserters on the spot, he adjourned it early, mournfully watched a line of cars pull out for Toledo. The Toledo meeting claimed 702 delegates from 70 locals, representing more than half U. A. W.'s 400,000 membership. (The Mortimer faction last week told C. I. O. Boss Lewis that its dues collections were 30% of U. A. WVs peak...
Quite apart from the immediate mobilization, the number of workers conscripted throughout Germany for rush work digging trenches, stringing barbed wire and erecting cement pillboxes every 150 yards along the Fatherland's new "Siegfried Line" (which faces part of the French "Maginot Line") rose last week to 300,000. Road contractors in southern Germany were also busy on rush orders to improve the surfacing of roads leading to the Czechoslovak frontier "to withstand more heavy traffic...
Commentators generally passed this off as a "technical correction," Wall Street's way of saying that prices which had gone ahead faster than Recovery were dropping back to fall in line with the industrial trend. Meanwhile, business indices indicated no serious relapse into Depression. Steel production last week was still about 40% of capacity; carloadings were down 8% from the previous week; automobile output at 13,790 units was the year's lowest. Counterbalancing such statistics, power production climbed to the highest point since January, bank debits rose 10%. Detroit wires hummed with thousands of telegrams ordering laid...
...scratch pads, paper bags and wrapping paper in their own pushcart, toilet paper was distinctly in the Chic Sale tradition; in their privies most U. S. citizens used old newspapers and catalogues or unmarked pads of rough yellow paper clamped together with staples. The Scotts began specializing in this line, got the jump on their competitors when E. I. Scott's father-in-law designed the first enclosed toilet paper container. In 1890 Scott also placed the first toilet paper advertising-a chaste piece in the Atlantic Monthly. For the next decade the sales theory of toilet paper...
...brands are now reduced to two-ScotTissue and Waldorf. This change was wrought by E. I.'s son, Arthur Hoyt Scott, who got into the business in 1905. He persuaded his father and uncle to start a "sanitary line" of six standardized brands to be promoted as quality, trademarked products. Young Arthur Scott also devised the company's first effective slogan, "Soft as old linen." By 1910 it was apparent that his idea of specialization was correct; his six brands provided 80% of the total sales of $726,264.09. About that time Scott paper towels came into being...