Word: rollered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...National Shawmut Bank in Boston; a 24-year-old fur worker from Brooklyn; a 29-year-old high-school principal from Georgia; the floor manager of the Hi-Skor bowling alley in Washington; a printer from Worcester; a lawyer; a section hand; a real-estate dealer; a professional roller skater; the 25 -year-old assistant office manager of a wholesale grocery firm in Allentown; an employe of the Arkansas Power and Light Co.; a brakeman on the New York Central; a 22 -year-old butcher from Fresno...
...steam roller moved on. From labor, which only six months ago had been openly hostile, Franklin Roosevelt got double assistance. C.I.O. President Phil Murray plumped loudly for Term IV, amid cheers and whistles at the Steelworkers Convention. And the A.F. of L. once more delayed John Lewis' plea for readmission to its ranks, thus spiking John L.'s chance to swing the A.F. of L. into the anti-Roosevelt column. Angrily, Lewis withdrew his application, cursing the A.F.of L.'s "servility to the Administration...
Plimpton's Passion. Plimpton built a $100,000 rink in New York City and introduced his sport to Newport, where polo on roller skates became a fashion. England also rolled passionately on Plimpton's invention. By 1876, Brighton had six rinks. Members of Parliament skated daily at Prince's Club...
...sport tumbled in World War I. Not until the 1930s did it start rolling again, when Sonja Henie's movies made the world figure-skating conscious. Roller enthusiasts perfected the same 41 basic school figures which constitute ice skating's International Style. By 1942, the U.S. had 4,000 rinks, 10 million skaters...
Author Traub predicts a postwar boom because roller skating is a good boy-meets-girl sport...