Word: parkerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rare is the bright young businessman who would not like to get control of a good little company, manufacture a good product, sell it under a good trade name. Two young men who did that were Thomas Harry Banfield and the late Cyrus Jury Parker, partners in a Portland, Ore. construction firm that they founded in 1909 with $700 cash. They did not discover their product until 1923, when they bought a local iron works as an adjunct to their contracting...
...present form was patented by an unemployed Philadelphian named Charles B. Darrow, whose last job (1930) was with a coal company lecturing dealers on new anthracite uses. Inventor Darrow built the first set in 1931, sold a few to friends, finally got it into Wanamaker's in Philadelphia. Parker Brothers of Salem, Mass., No. 1 U. S. game makers, turned Monopoly down at first because it required too many gadgets, took too long to play (two hours to all night). Last spring after Monopoly had taken hold Parker changed its mind, bought the game from Mr. Darrow...
...order for six dozen sets of Politics from Manhattan's F. A. O. Schwarz (toy store), had to call upon guests to help sort thousands of colored pins on his apartment floor. Last week with Politics having advanced from the handicraft stage to the hands of Parker Brothers, Inventor Lord claimed that sales were running above 500 sets per day in stores throughout the land...
...NATIVE of Russia . . . supervisor over the work of 6r writers, including Dorothy Parker and Tiffany Thayer. . . and editor of nothing himself . . . quick facts about Michael Wilf, new story chief for Paramount pictures...
Gradually the mutiny, never unanimous, fell apart. "President" Richard Parker of the mutineers and 29 other ringleaders were hanged at the yardarm, nine were flogged, 29 sent to jail. Britannia and Britannia's cat continued to rule the waves...