Word: shearman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shows, many of which cost as much as $15,000 a week, Wheeling Steel gets a lot of air advertising for a little. The orchestra men are unionized and get $38 a week each. The other regulars are considered 'amateurs." The veteran Singing Millmen, one a steel-plate "shearman," another a switchman, get $20 each over their regular weekly wage. The hotcha Steele Sisters, a blondy little trio, all 18-year-old high-school girls with relatives in the company, each get $10 a broadcast. Average cost per week for the whole program is about...
Tall, mild-mannered Keith Brown, who hopes to clear 14 ft. 6 in. before he graduates next June, is the latest addition to an extraordinary line of Yale pole-vaulters who, starting with Thomas Shearman in 1888, have since won the intercollegiate championship 20 times. Recent Yale pole-vaulters, like Sabin Carr, Olympic champion in 1928, and his contemporary Fred Sturdy, owe their success less to the New Haven climate than to the most famed of all the vaulters who preceded them, Alfred Carlton Gilbert, Olympic champion in 1908. Gilbert's study of pole-vaulting over 30 years...