Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio business is Major Edward Bowes, unctuous dominie of Chrysler's Original Amateur Hour each Thursday night at 9 over CBS. The Original Amateur Hour, as virtually every U. S. radio listener knows, is Opportunity Night on a national scale. Four years ago last week Major Bowes put it there, after a tryout year at Manhattan's WHN. Now the Major draws down a fee which the radio business covertly estimates at $20,000 a week for producing the radio program, collects between $10,000 and $15,000 weekly on the side from U. S. theatres for appearances...
...steaks) requires four to eight weeks under expensive cold-storage conditions. In the Mellon-Kroger process it is done in a few days at a temperature of 60°, a relative humidity of 90%. Molds and bacteria, which would spoil such warm, damp meat if left to themselves, are put out of action by ultraviolet light from a Westinghouse lamp...
Postman Smith made his escape in a four-wheeled scooter powered by a small gasoline engine. He stands at the back of his doodlebug, put-putting along at four to twelve miles an hour. For a delivery, he leaves his scooter contentedly burbling at the curb, manages to save not only foot-power but some 23% of the time formerly needed to cover his route. His superior, Superintendent of Mails B. H. Kaigler, intends to recommend the scooter's adoption for mailmen in residential districts everywhere...
...miscasting in The Hound of the Baskervilles is in the title role. The proper selection, obviously, would have been a calf-sized Norwegian elkhound; equipped with fright wig and false fangs. Instead, Associate Producer Gene Markey, perhaps in the delightful confusion attendant on his recent marriage to Hedy Lamarr, put his O.K. on a friendly old Great Dane named Chief, who, despite all his yelpings, cannot even make his bark seem worse than his bite...
Sylvia Porter herself has taken free rides on ten Treasury issues, has each year doubled in this and other ways the capital she put into the Government market. She speculates with the help of complicated graphs, for which her husband, Reed Richard Porter of Irving Trust Co., has to do the arithmetic. In what spare time remains, she plays the piano, goes to the movies, and writes fiction that thus far has impressed no publisher...