Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Samuel Calthrop, a Roxbury, Mass, clergyman who found charm in other things besides divine philosophy, thought back to the time when he had trained Harvard's crew for its first race with Yale. Pondering on the smoothness with which the racing shell had slipped through the water, and knowing that railroad engines often use more power to overcome atmospheric resistance than to pull cars, Rev. Mr. Calthrop sat down with pencil & paper, sketched an "Air-Resisting Train" which anticipated by almost 70 years the modern streamliner...
...Samuel Calthrop, born too early, reaped nothing but satisfaction from registering his train with the U. S. Patent Office. It was not until hard times sharpened their wits and aviation pointed the way that U. S. railroads took up streamlining. In 1934, with nearly one-third of the country's Class I roads in bankruptcy, with autos, busses, airlines fast sponging up passenger traffic, the railroads began to come out with so-called "neo-trains," fancy to look at, fancy in performance. First to enter scheduled service was Chicago, Burlington & Quincy's famed "articulated" streamliner, the Zephyr...
...this harsh squawk against the girls who have been hooking customers into box offices for years, the producers themselves for the most part maintained a shocked silence. But week before, Samuel (Quality, not Quantity) Goldwyn. had hit the nail on the head. "It used to be that . . . one picture of a double feature would be bad," he pounded. "Now you got to expect both of them will be terrible. . . The American picture industry . . . better do something, and do it soon...
Eloped. Catherine Harrison, 28, daughter of Mississippi's Senator Byron Patton ("Pat") Harrison; and Dr. Irvin Samuel Miller, 35, of Colton, Calif. "Delightfully flabbergasted" was Pat Harrison...
...Clark, L. Blair Clark, John L. Donnell, Mason Fernald, Michael P. Grace, Theodore L. Haziett, Jr., Thomas V. Healey, Frederick Holdsworth, Jr., F. Rockwell Hollands, John F. Kennedy, James D. Lightbody, Jr., Charles D. Lutz, Jr., Martin J. Lydon, Torbert H. Macdonald, Douglas Mercer, Phil C. Neal, and Samuel W. White...