Word: sheafe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real upswing came in 1934 when two things happened: 1) RCA began to remember and worry about its long dormant record business; 2) a brand new concern, Decca, entered the field with a sheaf of fresh ideas. Dapper, bespectacled Jack Kapp and his codirector, Edward R. Lewis, had long contended that what the country needed was a good 35? record (standard prices had previously ranged from 75? to $2). Signing up big names in the popular field (biggest: Crooner Bing Crosby-see p. 50), Decca put this contention to the test, and sales began to skyrocket. Today, the five-year...
...convention in St. Louis, a group of Negro A. M. A. members complained to Secretary Olin West against Southern exclusion, and the col. tag. Later, in Chicago, Dr. West caustically suggested that N. M. A. put their own house in order before criticizing the A. M. A. Flashing a sheaf of documents, he informed an astonished N. M. A. delegation that the president-elect of the Negro National Medical Association, Dr. Jesse Leonidas Leach of Flint, Mich., had been fined by a Michigan Federal district court in 1928 'for selling twelve quarts of bootleg "Sandy MacDonald" Scotch to disguised...
...Yankees' "Iron-Horse," went to Rochester, Minn., checked in at the Mayo Clinic to find out what ailed his slowed-up legs, his weakened grip. After a week of grilling and probing, Dr. Harold Clinton Habein gave Lou, on his 36th birthday, a sealed envelope and a sheaf of X-ray pictures. The verdict: "amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...
...morning of June 1, 1938, black-robed Federal Judge Francis Gordon Caffey looked down from his huge bench in Manhattan's gleaming new U. S. courthouse upon a bank of lawyers. Standing at the flat, mahogany counsel table with a sheaf of notes, earnest, tousle-headed Walter Lyman Rice, trust-busting Special Assistant to the U. S. Attorney General, was ready to give his opening outline of a lawsuit to dissolve $253,000,000 Aluminum Co. of America as a monopoly in restraint of trade...
...small radio receiver. When he landed at Roosevelt Field, N. Y. next day, tired and chilled, he had set a new transcontinental light-plane record: 23 hours and 26 minutes, an average of 110 m.p.h. Cost of the trip, exclusive of sandwiches, coffee and depreciation: $27.15. Result: a fat sheaf of inquiries from pilots, to some of whom Monocoupe hopes to sell airplanes. Said satisfied Mr. Bunch: "I made the flight for my own satisfaction...