Word: rineharts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...PURSUER-Louis Golding-Farrar & Rinehart...
...silicosis, pneumonia and tuberculosis. When workmen refused to go into the tunnel heads, foremen, according to subsequent court testimony, often clubbed them on. But the foremen dutifully followed their gangs into the dust, and many of them died too. According to the People's Press, Rinehart & Dennis, tunnel builders for New-Kanawha Power Co. contracted with a distant undertaker to bury casualties at $50 per head. When he had buried 169 of them on his mothers farm at Summersville, W. Va. she planted the cemetery to corn...
Digging of the Gauley Bridge tunnel ended in 1932. By that time about 500 silicosis deaths had spread terror throughout the territory. A smart Kentucky lawyer went over the mountains, instigated damage suits against Rinehart & Dennis. Some relicts won. Some derelicts won. Many lost or sued too late to accomplish anything for themselves. But as a result West Virginia passed its silicosis compensation law, which in turn prompted the radical press to dig up the Gauley Bridge skeleton, rattle its bones...
...Rinehart...
Smart Publishers Farrar & Rinehart have lined up a dozen-odd professional writers, given them carte blanche to be skittish. Publisher Alan Rinehart, only non-professional contributor, skits creditably on the perils of childbirth from the husband's viewpoint. Supreme-seller Hervey Allen ponderously parodies himself in a syllabus of an even bigger novel than Anthony Adverse. Author Rex Stout blows the gaff on how to water down love stories for a fiction editor. Newcomer Ed Bell (Fish on the Steeple) sticks a plum in the pudding, in the form of a small-town Southern story. Arthur Kober writes...