Word: pretzels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...social side of such a venture would not be unattractive as it would give married men an excuse for another night out a month, also enable all types of salesmen members to find new prospects and would probably increase the sales of the beer and pretzel businesses considerably...
...openly aspired to succeed Blomberg both as War Minister and as Field Marshal, was fobbed off last week by simply making him a Field Marshal, today the only one in Germany on active service. So far as "impossible" wives are concerned, Göring tied the Potsdam Code into pretzel shape and swallowed it when he married an actress with what is considered in Germany to be a Jewish name (Sonnemann), although she claims to be no Jewess. The Army swallowed her and it would have swallowed Blomberg's wife if she last week had really been the issue...
This year's redesigning of the pretzel-shaped Roosevelt Raceway at Westbury, L. I., scene of the 300 mi. George Vanderbilt Cup automobile race, was intended to encourage more thrilling, more dangerous speeding, confine the dull, slow driving to seven turns. But on the simplified course this week's Cup contest resolved itself into a grinding 90-lap parade much like last year's except that this time specially-built German, as well as Italian, cars thundered steadily and safely down the straightaways...
...Harry Robert Dittmar of the du Pont Research Laboratories described "Pontalite," a new plastic known chemically as methyl methacrylate polymer, as clear as optical glass, only half as heavy as common glass, flexible, non-shattering (TIME, Sept. 21). Last week du Pont scientists in Manhattan demonstrated that a pretzel shaped length of Pontalite could conduct light, carry it around bends as a cable carries electricity. A flashlight was held close to one end of the twisted plastic tube. The other end of the tube shone brightly...
First prize in last week's race in addition to a cup donated by young George Vanderbilt, whose Cousin William K. put up the first one, was $20,000. The course was 75 times around the brand new pretzel-shaped Roosevelt Raceway (TIME, Sept. 28). To watch the race, lured by publicity which stressed the possibility that it might produce several fatalities, went a crowd of 50,000, including a list of boxholders, at $27.50 per person, which read like a carefully abridged social register...