Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...baby-carriage factory works would be dull and of no interest. But an inside story of a baby-carriage factory that is actually making machine guns on the sly -that's more like it." When it appears, March 31, Ken is to be a large, slick-paper magazine of Esquire flamboyance, liberally daubed with color and sporting "a full size picture magazine as just one of its several sections...
...this was recalled last week in London as Britain's big, slick Science Museum staged an exhibition called "One Hundred Years of Transatlantic Steam Navigation." By models and murals visitors were shown a century's changes from wood to iron and steel; from paddle wheel to screw, to multiple screws. Last paddle wheeler left the Atlantic in 1874, the first turbine arrived 20 years later. "Grandest failure" was the 18,914-ton Great Eastern, a five-funnel combined paddle and screw steamship, 680 feet long, built in 1858. Most vessels then carried about 400 passengers. The Great Eastern...
Nobody knows how old a story ragtime is to the Negroes of the South. But the first man to write ragtime down on paper was a slick-haired Kentuckian, Ben Harney, whose songs Mr. Johnson Turn Me Loose and You've Been a Good Old Wagon, but You've Done Broke Down were hits in the gay 'nineties. Last week 66-year-old Harney, forgotten in the era of swing, died of heart disease in a Philadelphia rooming house...
...national championship, held simultaneously, there was no such close competition. St. Paul's slim, slick Robin Lee, 18, won the title for the fourth year...
...This Country), Norway's biggest ship is a 20,000-tonner, 588 ft. long, is equipped with Diesel engines to carry 800 passengers from Oslo, Kristiansand, Stavenger and Bergen to New York in seven days-twelve hours faster than any other Norwegian vessel. Grateful for Germany's slick construction job, the line gave a 10,000-mark tip to the shipyard's relief fund...