Word: roading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today the Heil Co. employs 1,800 people, makes oil burners, oil and milk tanks for trucks, hydraulic hoists, dump-truck bodies, water systems, road scrapers, snow plows "and everything." Ruddy, energetic, thick-accented Julius Heil is a millionaire, a life-member Elk, also a Moose, Shriner and patriarch of the Milwaukee Athletic Club, where he meets his wife and friends every Saturday evening for a Familienfest. He can boast that in all his business years his workers have never struck, and that during Depression he spent $600,000 of his company's reserves to keep them...
...York City to Miami (1,460 nautical miles). Each year some 2,500 boats from New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and surrounding States motor down through the network of rivers, streams and canals (there is still 50 miles of open sea). Like touring autoists, waterway tourists use road maps (Government charts), obey traffic signals (buoys). They treat sailing vessels as autoists treat pedestrians, park at anchorages instead of garages. Diehard water-gypsies, 100,000 strong, never get off their boats, live on them all year round...
Once again this year the Houses are to have a formal hockey tournament thanks to the Boston Skating Club, which has turned over its excellent new rink on Soldiers Field Road to the Athletic Association for 160 hours a week...
Buzzing cheerily over frozen Dominion tundra, Pilot Hume lost his vision because of a frosty windshield. He slowed down to clean it off by moving into a large snowbank at the side of the road, since it would save his rather feeble brakes undue exertion. Like the boy who tackled the snowman built around a fire hydrant Hume found that all is not snow that drifts. The ancient carriage demolished itself against a submerged culvert...
Spectacular, bespectacled Waddill Catchings in 1928 co-authored (with William Trufant Foster) a book called The Road to Plenty showing how the U. S. boom could be made to pop higher & higher like a Roman candle. In 1928 and 1929 Waddill Catchings got conservative old Goldman, Sachs & Co. to light up such investment-trust skyrockets as Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. and Shenandoah Corp., which soared and sank magnificently. Last week, while fireworks were still popping out of the McKesson & Robbins box (including an SEC investigation of Price, Waterhouse auditing), who should step in, match-in-hand, but impish Waddill Catchings...