Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eastern's general manager, Eddie Rickenbacker has made it almost a one-man line. He well knew that this pleasant state would be unlikely to continue after a merger with TWA. He also knew that TWA is in anything but healthy financial shape. So he asked General Motors to stall for a few weeks while he hunted for other buyers. These he found in the Wall Street investment houses of Smith, Barney & Co. and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. When they agreed to put up $3,500,000 in cash, keep the line independent and give General Manager Rickenbacker complete operating...
...wonder of any outsider who ever attended a meeting there, felt its floors reverberate to the rhythmic pounding of a thousand Corybantic Negro feet. Many a Harlemite believes the black "God's" following is dwindling. Last week Father Divine's chief kingdom, still apparently in good shape, was sold to a black rival-"Bishop" Charles Manuel ("Daddy") Grace. Assessed at $38,000 and owned by a Manhattan bank, the kingdom was first offered to the Divineites, but their agent, named "Blessed Purin Heart," balked at paying more than $16,000. Bishop Grace paid down $2,000 in cash...
...last week's Archives of Physical Therapy, Dr. Hans Weisz & associates of the University of Vienna reported that they spread out a frog's tongue until it was very thin, and kept it in that shape by lacing it to a U-shaped glass rod. This arrangement enabled them to see and prove that ultrashort waves heat only the flesh and do not alter the blood vessels of that part of the body exposed to them, and that the electricity produces no effect other than that of pure heat, an important fact for physiotherapists to know...
...shape at the height of the season both teams should turn in even better performances than last week on the bigger armory floor. Extra stands have been installed in the anticipation of a large crowd...
...other Crimson invalid, Red Lowman, although still strapped up extensively, will be able to go in at a starting post, having warmed up his injured arm for a few minutes against Columbia. Princeton, on the other hand, will be in top physical shape, since long absent Captain Vruwink has returned to the lineup...