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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps I am getting behind in my knowledge of slang, but where did you get the name "juke box" for nickel phonographs in your article about Glenn Miller? (TIME, Nov. 27). In Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, everyone calls them "Groan Boxes" and the expression, "Flip a nickel in the groan," is generally understood...
...Rubber is No. 2 U. S. tiremaker (No. 1, Goodyear). Its President Francis Breese Davis Jr. wants to expand without increasing the total U. S. tire production facilities. Fisk will give him a first-rate trade name, a going concern with a best-selling tire (Safti-Flight), plus New England tire plants that U. S. Rubber lacks. Also important, the deal will give U. S. Rubber valuable Fisk tire patents...
Kollsman is the name of a shy, German-born inventor who studied mechanical engineering at the technical schools of Stuttgart and Munich, in 1923 emigrated to the U. S., found work as a truck driver's assistant, then as a mechanic for Pioneer Instrument Co., a Bendix subsidiary. By 1928 Paul Kollsman had accumulated $500 and started Kollsman Instrument...
...Napoleon's Clisson et Eugénie, written shortly before the 26-year-old artillery officer, shabby, suffering from itch and malaria-appreciated only by a few of his colleagues-made his name by smashing a royalist coup in Paris on Oct. 4, 1795. Until now this fragmentary (13-page) romance was known only to bibliophiles through a sketch published by a Polish scholar...
...BASKETBALL HIGH SCORERS Name, House Goals Lubschansky Dunster 32 Stewart, Leverett 31 Burt, Eliot 25 Smith, Kirkland 19 Cordingley, Leverett 16 Foster, Kirkland 16 Jackson, Adams 16 Macgowan, Adams 16 McGinniss, Dunster 16 Ezell, Kirkland 15 Tonkonow, Lowell 15 Keith, Leverett 14 Eisenstein, Lowell 14 Lyford, Lowell...