Word: rollered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buster Crabbe's Aquaparade of 1949 is frankly an experiment to see if a water show can travel from city to city successfully, an experiment to see it swimmers can crack the vast market now held jointly by the circus, the roller skating derbies, and the ice revues...
Most of the weak points of the Aquaparade of 1949 can be charged up to inexperience, and insufficient rehearsing. The show is fairly interesting now and has promise of becoming better than its ice and roller skating competitors. If the excellence of the diving and most vaudeville acts can carry it through this season, it should in time become a very fine show...
...Lorenz ("Hot Rod") Froelich. At dinner almost every night, Hot Rod, a big, 24-year-old redhead, would complain to his father that Bonduel was sleeping in a rut while progress passed by. The village board, Hot Rod argued, should wake up, give the kids a roller-skating rink, and bring small industry into Bonduel. Old John Froelich didn't pay too much attention...
Antitrust. Monopolists were having a rough time. In a Cleveland federal court, Timken Roller Bearing Co. was convicted of conspiring with its British and French affiliates to fix world prices of roller bearings and restrict competition. In Manhattan, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., National Lead Co. and three individuals were fined a total of $43,000 (the maximum) for operating a worldwide cartel in titanium pigments. The companies were already under court order to license titanium production at a reasonable royalty...
Assistants for the course are Professor Duane Roller of Wabash College, Professor earl J. McGrath of the University of Chicago, and Professor Fletcher Watson of the Harvard Graduate School of Education...