Word: rans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...president of Old Age Revolving Pensions, Inc., to finish a strong third. As No. 2, Governor Ernest Whitworth Marland won the right to enter a runoff primary July 28 by singing the praises of Franklin Roosevelt, pointing to his own State's social security amendment. Even so, he ran well behind winning Representative Josh Lee, 44, whose New Deal-plus platform included "a farm for every farmer and a home for every family...
...names and salaries of their highest-paid officers, paralleled this list with another showing the average weekly wage in their industry. Payment ranged downward from $304,398 for American Tobacco's George Washington Hill to a low of $40,000, found in four instances, while average weekly wages ran from $38.45 (fire insurance) to $12.53 (textile). Outstanding disparity: Mr. Hill's compensation contrasted with the average $13.76 a week earned by workers in the tobacco industry...
Eldest of the seven sons of a Russian immigrant who ran a grocery store on Chicago's West Side, Barney Balaban got into cinema in the days of the nickelodeon. His only sister was the wife of Sam Katz. Balaban and Katz were the first theatre owners to cool their patrons in summer with mechanical refrigeration, an innovation presumably inspired by Barney Balaban's early experience in the cold-storage business. They were the first to cut dull shots from newsreels, the first to go in for super-colossal theatres. Balaban & Katz became the biggest theatre-chain...
...father were working with pick & wheelbarrow about 65 ft. below the surface when they heard the rotten timbering begin to crack. They filled up the wheelbarrow once more. On the way out Father Kuklinskie heard the earth breaking up over his head, felt it falling on his shoulders. He ran, dragging his pick to safety. But in one glance backward he saw Son Enoch flop under the wheelbarrow as the avalanche of coal and rock descended...
Hastily to Superintendent George H. Jones of Stevens Coal's Cameron Colliery ran 60 dirty men, pleading for help for their fellow bootlegger. Well aware of the irony of having thieves beg aid from their victims, Superintendent Jones barked: "He is one of your own people, why not get him out yourselves...