Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...card table beside the court during the final and which, for the last two years, has merely been handed to him to fondle for newsreel cameramen before watchful U. S. L. T. A. officials restored it to its Black, Starr & Frost-Gorham vault. To take the $500 silver Cup away from Forest Hills, a U. S. champion tennist must win the tournament three times. Since the late William A. Larned, who held the championship seven times, won his second Cup in 1910, only one player has actually got his hands on a U. S. Men's Singles Cup. That...
...prefabricators who insist that all homes should be produced like Fords. He believed in standardization and mass production of parts but not of the complete structure. Through Reynolds Corp., one of two new subsidiaries, Reynolds Metals will market the basic structural and mechanical equipment for "The House with the Silver Lining," but will have no stock homes to sell. Through the other subsidiary, Reynolds Fiscal Corp., it will finance houses "when local financing is not available...
...four ikons they prayed aloud for world peace. Then the Abuna prayed God in Arabic to "break arms and quench the fire of war," to know that Ethiopia is thankful for the sympathy extended by other peace-loving nations. Haile Selassie approached the Abuna, kissed the prelate's silver cross draped in silk. The bearded Emperor put on his shoes, walked out among his subjects, drove back to his palace and breakfast...
...Duke of York was guest last week to J. P. Morgan who was greeted recently by King George "like a long-lost brother" at the Royal Garden Party which closed the Silver Jubilee (TIME, Aug. 12). Mr. Morgan, who bought Genochy in County Angus four years ago for grouse shooting, was reported by terse Scots to have "acting as his hostess" Lady Elphinstone, the buxom Duchess of York's vivacious sister. Grizzled Host Morgan himself shot no grouse, strolled about the moors with the shooting Duke of York, conversed with animation. Scots reported that as usual male guests received...
Born in Budapest, Julius Kessler was selling whiskey in Colorado when the silver boom started at Leadville in the late 1870's By coaxing pack mules over the hills from Denver, he got his whiskey to Leadville, where it retailed at $2 for three fingers. Later, when he got his own distilleries, he beat out his rivals by selling direct to retailers. A tall, beaming sales man with a sleek, well-fed look, Julius Kessler managed to pump the hands of at least 40,000 U. S. liquor dealers. That gave him such a runaway advantage that Distillers Securities...