Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader Parker could be wronger, but not much. The Conestoga wagon was made in Conestoga, Pa., which had been named for the Conestoga Indians. To Conestoga went teamsters hauling lumber, tooling the team with one hand while they rolled a cigar with the other. Later Conestogas, or stogies, became favorites of the wagon trains freighting from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia, where the drivers would sell the supply they had rolled along the way. Hence, Pittsburgh stogies. Wheeling came in on the freight...
...campaign to get more hosiery manufacturers to put the union label on silk stockings, the American Federation of Hosiery Workers (C. I. O.) last week featured a full-page advertisement in the Knit Goods Weekly, showing Hollywood Star Jean Parker, sleek limbs sheathed in stockings stamped with the union label. The caption: Movie Stars Demand Hosiery Union Label. (Actresses June Lang, Arleen Whelan will decorate future ads in other trade journals...
Divorced. Alton Parker Hall, grandson of Presidential Candidate (1904) Alton B. Parker; by Emmeline Marion Grace Hall, daughter of Bethlehem Steel's President Eugene Gifford Grace; after a separation of three years; in Reno...
This is a typical howdy-do from Uncle Sam Calling, eight-week radio series now planted on 662 U. S. radio stations by the U. S. Census Bureau. Many a censusee does not like the prospect of being asked, and having to answer, a raft of Nosy Parker questions: whether he has a bathroom, a mortgage; where he lived five years ago (for an insight into migrant labor), his race (which most anthropologists say is unanswerable), whether he has been on WPA, CCC, NYA, etc. For the first time in history, the April census will also ask the "amount...