Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proxy were but samples of many others. They varied in size from the one held at Tacna, Ariz, (pop.: 7) to the one held in Philadelphia's Convention Hall attended by 15,000. They varied in expense from the 35? charged in Milwaukee to the $100 a plate charged at a dinner given at Manhattan's Central Park Casino by Mrs. Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament Hann Magraw, one-time actress (Up in Mabel's Room}. Mrs. Magraw found, however, that she could sell only two $100 tickets, to herself and her husband. So she refused...
...dowmetal spectrographs will be used to follow the course of the changing spectrum of the sun throughout the progress of the eclipse. They will record the appearance of the spectrum on a moving plate...
...other big flat glass company is Pittsburgh Plate Glass, which at one time had the makings of a plate glass trust. Established by John Ford and John Pitcairn in 1883, it was the first successful U. S. plate glass company, made all but a small fraction of the domestic plate glass output. When Mr. Ford and Mr. Pitcairn disagreed, the Fords got out and Edward Ford, son of Founder John, founded a company which later joined Messrs. Libbey and Owens* to form in Libbey-Owens-Ford an eternal rival to Pittsburgh Plate. Although largest flat glassmaker. Pittsburgh Plate also expanded...
Pittsburgh's specialties include Carrara structural glass-an opaque plate glass with a highly polished surface. It was originally made for use in countertops and tabletops, graduated into wainscotting for hallways and bathrooms, last year was used in store fronts. Pittsburgh also makes Herculite, a glass which will resist temperatures up to 650°. Most spectacular Pittsburgh stunt came last month when Sergeant Frank Shannon, champion marksman of the Newark, N. J. police force, fired a round of Thompson submachine gun bullets at Night-Club Singer Ella Logan. Though only 30 feet from the "Tommy-gun," Miss Logan smiled...
President of Pittsburgh Plate since 1928 has been Harry S. Wherrett, a onetime office boy. A great Pittsburgh booster and member of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce, he is advertising his city and his company by putting the little known Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra on the radio in a Pittsburgh Plate Glass half hour. The program, scheduled to begin on Feb. 27, will be broadcast over a 40-station NBC hookup. An added civic note is supplied by the fact that the orchestra leader, Antonio Modarelli, is a native Pittsburgher...