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Students may soon be able to return books to Widener Library at any hour of the night as well as on Sundays with the help of a Rube Goldberg contraption that the Maintenance Department has been working on for a month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WIDENER BOOK RETURN WILL WORK A LA RUBE GOLDBERG | 3/27/1940 | See Source »

...When "Rube" Fleet moved his company to San Diego in 1935, Larry Bell leased the old plant, raised $400,000 by stock sales in Buffalo and became president of Bell Aircraft Corp., with Robert J. Woods as his boss designer. While Woods was turning out the two-engined Airacuda, Bell Aircraft was making ends meet by subcontracting for other manufacturers; but by the time the Air Corps had bought 13 Airacudas, Larry Bell could see the Airacobra and a real manufacturing future ahead. Last week on Bell's books were Air Corps orders for 93 Airacobras, and its backlog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Airacobra | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

Uncle Dave Macon, age 70, has gold uppers, alfalfa on his chin, sometimes sports pink gates-ajar collars. He has a ready rube wit. an endless repertory of high jinks, and plays three five-stringed banjos at once. Uncle Dave sets the tone & tune of Grand Ol' Opry, a radio program many plain folk in the South vastly prefer to Charlie McCarthy or Jack Benny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Opry Night | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...story is enough to make a mystery fan throw up his hands in abject despair. It concerns a psychic convict fresh from taking the tap for a rich, buccaueering and, of all things, the rich man's murder. There's a nifty bit of Rube Goldbergiana concerning the firing of a pistol, but otherwise the film ends with very little clarification of anything save the fact that Nick Charles leads a very merry married life. However, the conversation sparkles at frequent intervals and Myrna Loy wears a negligee now and then for a man's money this is enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

Other popular records of the month: Day |n-Day Out (Artie Shaw; Bluebird). Rube Bloom's popular-melody-of-the-month played by a sound dance band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Lion | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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