Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this Pilot Fuller won $13,000. His cross-country time was 9 hr. 44 min. 43 sec., fastest in Bendix history but below the 7 hr. 28 min. 25 sec. record held by wealthy Sportsman Howard Hughes. Deafened and groggy, Winner Fuller called for a bottle of soda pop, repaired to a Coney Island hotel. A thick man in his late thirties, Frank Fuller is secretary-treasurer of San Francisco's W. P. Fuller & Co. (paint), founded by his grandfather. He does not spend much time in his office. His wife, brother, sister and cousin are all flyers...
...parents are sometimes horrified to see emitted sturdy pink bubbles which burst with a snapping sound. A child who is expert with bubble gum can blow a globe almost as big as his head. Satisfaction is also to be derived from gulping back bubbles of moderate size, making them pop inside the mouth. As millions of U. S. moppets return to school this month these practices are going to be more prevalent, because September is a peak month for sales of "Blony" bubble...
...leave their boos at home. The unpretentiously preposterous plot concerns the tribulations of a Scotland Yard operative, Tracy Egan (Don Ameche). who has fallen in love with Myra Cooper (Loretta Young), whom he met while liberating his repressions on a Continental holiday. Just as the guns begin to pop, Tracy gets a phone call from the Yard ordering him to bring in Miss Cooper, suspected of a jewel robbery. The local military party, whose uniforms resemble those of the Canadian Mounted Police, are also looking for a jewel thief-an English girl who visited a bank vault before the looting...
...manure compost and kept pitch-dark. Lumps of spawn are pushed into the compost about eight inches apart. In three weeks fine, white, hairlike mycelia extend from top to bottom. Then a "casing" of loam is put on top and in three weeks more the first white pinheads pop out. Each bed bears well for two or three months. Then the tired manure is stripped off, sold to golf courses as a top dressing for $1.50 a ton. The mushrooms themselves, fat, firm and thick as barnacles on a ship, are tended by gloved workmen who wear miners' head...
...heavy chains are stretched across the three entrances to Ocean Grove, and no automobile may enter, or move in the town's streets, until midnight Sunday. Unless they go to Asbury Park or Bradley Beach, the 35,000 summer residents of Ocean Grove go without ice cream, soda pop, postcards, films and newspapers on Sunday. Ocean Grove is the only dry community on the North Jersey coast, and in 1926 the late John Philip Sousa, concert touring, incurred its permanent displeasure by playing Follow the Swallow after he had been told a march called Wets & Drys would be inacceptable...