Word: lock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once again last week were attorneys for Gillette Safety Razor Co. busy looking up law, preparing briefs. A $1,500,000 damage suit was filed against the company by Segal Lock & Hardware Co. of Manhattan, loud in its charges that Gillette has violated anti-trust laws. And Gillette filed a suit against Segal charging infringement of blade patents...
Biggest catfish in the world is Old Blue who inhabits the Missouri River and is so big he once got stuck trying to go through a canal lock. But Old Blue exists only in the imaginations of Missouri River boatmen. Last week a real catfish was caught by one Manuel Trigleth in Bee Lake, near Lexington, Miss., which made Manuel Trigleth shout for his father and brother to help pull in the line. Weight...
...breathless question was asked and left unanswered last week in sweltering official Ottawa: "Can the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons arrest a Senator of the Dominion and lock him up in the Tower of Parliament?"* Reason such an arrest seemed likely was that Senator Wilfred Laurier McDougald of Montreal had refused to appear before a Committee of the House and was considered in contempt of Parliament...
When the wheels of the big white Lock- heed Winnie Mae kicked a cloud of Roosevelt Field dust into the sunset one evening last week, they ended a story already read and reread by every newsreader in the land. Any urchin in the crowd of 10,000 that milled about the field could have told how the plane had left Solomon Beach near Nome two days before on the last laps of its round-the-world flight (TiME, July 6); how Navigator Harold Gatty had miraculously escaped serious injury when the propeller kicked him; how one-eyed Pilot Wiley Post...
...these cities: Cincinnati, In the Zoological Garden there is a covered auditorium through whose open sides one may gaze over green lawns and gardens to a lake where swans and ducks swim. Sometimes during a pianissimo a lion's distant roar intrudes. Zoo men are careful to lock up the peacocks on opera nights. Here last week Ambroise Thomas' Mignon and Friedrich Smetana's Bartered Bride opened Cincinnati's season: eight weeks of standard grand opera, two of light opera (this year, Vincent Youman's & Herbert Stothart's Wild flower and Rudolf Friml...