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...peaceful for a week until I walked up behind him while he was eating supper and broke a mixing bowl over his head. Again I was beaten immediately. I waited for a while and beat him on the head with a bed slat when he was reading his paper. Immediately, I received the worst beating he had ever given...
...sandwich his sports in between part-time jobs. He played baseball on American Legion teams at 11, was a semi-pro at 14 (mainly because of his ability with a bat), and still found time to help support his family. For a while he was a slat-painter in a venetian-blind factory...
...Fence. Chicago's Sisalkraft Co. offered a snow fence made of paper instead of wood lath. Made of 12-in.-wide strips of two-ply asphalt-treated paper attached to steel posts, the fence withstands sleet and rainstorms and high winds, costs about the same as conventional wood-slat fencing. Main advantage: a two-thirds saving in installation and maintenance expense...
...cell and made a soap impression of it. A little later he rambled over to McKinley's Hardware Store and lifted a couple of files and a metal saw. Working at leisure, he made himself a cell key from a piece of metal bed slat and, thus equipped, went back into the burglary business...
...company "invented"' the modern trailer and has paced the trailer industry for 36 years. In 1915, Roy August Fruehauf, a Detroit blacksmith and wagonmaker, was persuaded by his eldest son, Harvey (then earning $7 a week), to build a trailer with hard rubber tires and open slat sides for hauling lumber. He didn't think much of it, but Harvey thought it had such possibilities that he plugged it in trade journals with the slogan: "A horse can haul more than he can carry. So can a motor truck." The slogan worked so well for Fruehauf that...