Word: outfits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Carpenter organized the National Chip Steak Co., set out with a trailer and a steak-making outfit to demonstrate and sell. Last week he reached Chicago having licensed the process en route to Western and Midwestern manufacturers (the largest at a $10,000 fee). In addition to license fees, National Chip Steak Co. collects ⅛? per steak royalty. Present output of "Chip Steaks" is at the rate of 30,000,000 a year, monthly royalties about $2,500. By the end of 1939 Carpenter expects to see royalties of $5,000 a month. Chip Steak Corp. of Illinois which began...
Because a Paris weekly (Pour Vous) reported that she had been angling for a job as Nazi propagandist, sullen-eyed, Polish-born Cinemactress Polo Negri (real name: Appollonia Chalupec), 40, got herself up in a salmon-pink outfit, stormed into court, demanded 1,000,000 francs damages. Last week Cinemactress Negri was awarded 10,000 francs (about...
...first Waring orchestra drew down for its first engagement, in Tyrone, Pa., 21 years ago. Fred, 18, was then in Penn State, studying architecture and engineering. His younger brother Tom and the boy next door, a dark, antic trap-drummer named Poley McClintock, had a two-piece piano & drums outfit that used to pick up occasional pin money playing for Victory dances, etc. They invited Fred, a violinist who preferred the banjo to join in. Another banjoist, Fred Buck, joined too. Four-strong, they barnstormed Pennsylvania's busy mining district, picked up a sax player or so, a trumpeter...
...race for the sub-varsity eights should be in favor of the Harvard boats. Coach Ed Leader has had to concentrate too much on the Blue varsity to turn out a strong jayvee outfit, and the Harvard Freshman and Comby crews are also favored...
...Coast with the proper blessing, Cinemactor Smith retires to rest up for the next imperial command, leaving the script to its own Sunday-supplement involvements. Operating on the Gold Coast is a scientific expedition with a German accent, run by a retired munitions magnate named Zurof. Zurof's outfit is stealthily engaged in cornering mines of war materials. Also operating somewhere in the neighborhood is a warmongering Mystery Radio, spewing anti-British propaganda and urging sabotage on all outposts of the Empire...