Word: pints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scooting along on a white pony, finished the chase on the black. Trouble with The Terror of Tiny Town, Producer Buell was soon to realize, was that without a few normal-sized folks for contrast, midgets appear much like other people. Next time out, Producer Buell's half-pint stock company will have something to stack up against. They will act out the legend of the mighty lumber man, Paul Bunyan, with a burly upper case actor in the lead...
...reasons why Donald Douglas has expanded in 18 years from that pint-sized barber shop to a plant covering 1,315,974 square feet are two: He believes that it takes dreamers and technicians, not businessmen, to make airplanes; he has the uncanny ability of finding the right experts from among his old cronies. Donald Douglas has surrounded himself with a group of congenial, practical-minded Jules Vernes. Perhaps the most important of these is Arthur E. Raymond. Son of the late Walter Raymond of Raymond-Whitcomb, he looks more like a professor than a boss. His first job with...
...side made things pretty nice. "Food! Good Lord what meals: fresh vegetables, plenty of meat, mmmmm!" and he continued to tell of feasts that would cause even the palate of a Lucius Beebe to water. There was one trouble, however, and that they only got little more than a pint of milk a day, but Bangs seemed to feel that the wines, especially the new spring wine from the Barcelona region, more than made up for this lack...
...Buell (Harlem on the Prairie, TIME, Dec. 13) was last week collecting in Hollywood 200 midgets. Their assignment: an all-midget, musical Western, The Terror of Tiny Town. Quickest to follow Producer Buell's knee-high lead was Dr. Eugene Frenke, producer husband of Actress Anna Sten. His pint-sized project: Half-Buck Rides Again...
...start of this year's strawberry season, which lasts from March till the middle of May, James Morrison petitioned the National Chain Stores Association to forbid its members selling berries at less than 1½? profit a pint, 36? a crate. Last week Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. said it would do as Mr. Morrison's Farmers Union asked...