Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...others among the billion and a half of human beings in the rest of the world must and shall learn from and be subject to them. "I recognize that these words which I have chosen with deliberation will not prove popular in any nation that chooses to fit this shoe to its foot. . . . World peace and world goodwill are blocked by only ten or 15% of the world's population. . . . And that is why even efforts to continue the existing limits on naval armaments into the years to come show such little current success. . . . "In the field of international...
Genealogy counts for little on Broadway, but nobody in show business can point to humbler origins than George Alviel White. He says he has been on his own since he was 5. Successively a stable boy, jockey, shoe-shiner, military mascot, newsboy, bellhop, he was delivering telegrams for Postal when some extempore dance steps in a Bowery saloon earned him $12. At that point he quit the telegraph company's employ but retained its uniform, dancing in it for throw money in saloons. On one occasion Clarence Mackay's future son-in-law, a waiter named Israel Baline...
Associated with Mr. Jacobs was a small, extravagantly mustached press agent named Benjamin Sonnenberg, whose tasks in the past have included making Mrs. Roosevelt a shoe saleswoman on the radio, promoting Trader Horn and the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, urging socialites to play billiards. Promoter Jacobs and Press Agent Sonnenberg last week met five bridge players from France when they landed in Manhattan. Having beaten the masters of twelve nations at Brussels last June, the French team imagined that it and the Four Aces, winner of the Spingold, Vanderbilt and a dozen other U. S. trophies, would settle down...
...amalgamation of many food machinery companies. Food Machinery Corp. somewhat resembles, on smaller scale, United Shoe Machinery Corp., particularly since many of its most important items are not sold but leased. Food Machinery leases the Color Process (orange packers pay 2? a case), the milk sterilizer (2? a case), the Peach Pitter, the Pear Machine. Last week Food Machinery announced that its sales for 1935 (year ending Sept. 30) were up 29% from 1934; its lease income up 70%. Sales were $6,486,000; lease-income was $1,041,000, not counting the partly-owned Peach Pitter; total income...
...black capacity from 385,000 lb. a day to 485,000 lb. a day. Carbon black is produced by burning a "sour" natural gas that is no good for lighting or heating. Tiremakers take 75% of the output; 15% goes into inks; the remainder is used in rubber heels, shoe polish, paint, other products. ¶ By Nov. 1 the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. had made 7,381 teletypewriter installations, compared to 5,419 as of Nov. 1, 1934. ¶ Comptroller of the Currency O'Connor announced an additional dividend of 10% to depositors of Manhattan's Harriman National...