Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chief of Staff for a four-year tour of duty. With the job goes the courtesy rank of full general (four silver shoulder stars, a salute of 17 guns). Soldierly son of a Civil War father (Lieut.-General Arthur MacArthur), the new Chief was born in barracks at Little Rock, Ark., went to West Point as soon as he could. There he was senior-year (1903) cadet-captain, popular, a baseball adept. Graduated into the Corps of Engineers, he engaged in rivers-&-harbors work, experience which must have weighed heavily with the engineering President. But also of importance...
...price slump did not daunt Mr. Legge. Sure that rock bottom had been hit, he declared: "If I were a miller, I'd want my tanks filled to capacity at present prices."* He thought if planters would announce agreement to a reduction program, prices would immediately start upward. His first stop was at Indianapolis to confer with growers of winter wheat. Thence his itinerary would take him through Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington...
...Cabinet, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, forewent his customary trip to Europe this summer. Last spring he took a Caribbean cruise. His holiday now will consist only of frequent Friday-to-Tuesday trips to his and his brother's Rolling Rock demesne near Pittsburgh, to watch and instruct his only son Paul, literarily inclined but learning the banking business...
...mill boy, has been called "a past master in New England economy." His economies at Amoskeag were heroic. Amoskeag messenger boys now furnish their own bicycles; Amoskeag trucks, all except three, stay inside the plant walls to avoid the necessity for license plates. With costs at the rockiest of rock bottoms, Treasurer Dumaine has also modernized production and selling. The new rayon mill turned out 800,000 Ib. of rayon last year. Not without opposition has Treasurer Dumaine set Amoskeag on its feet again. Employes have grumbled against his rigid economies, as when last March the print-cloth workers voted...
...starters in the All-American Air Derby for planes powered by 100-h. p. American Cirrus engines, finished at Los Angeles the first half of a 7,000-mi. round-the-continent race, headed east to complete the circle in Detroit. In the lead was Lee Gehlbach of Little Rock, Ark. flying a low-wing Command-Aire...