Word: snow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today the Heil Co. employs 1,800 people, makes oil burners, oil and milk tanks for trucks, hydraulic hoists, dump-truck bodies, water systems, road scrapers, snow plows "and everything." Ruddy, energetic, thick-accented Julius Heil is a millionaire, a life-member Elk, also a Moose, Shriner and patriarch of the Milwaukee Athletic Club, where he meets his wife and friends every Saturday evening for a Familienfest. He can boast that in all his business years his workers have never struck, and that during Depression he spent $600,000 of his company's reserves to keep them...
...instance, if you're coming down a hill and your skis catch on the snow, when you go to turn you will be off balance. The ski that slides the easiest will turn the easiest...
...course with a breakable crust under two inches of fresh snow and with icy curves. Hinton ran a no-fall race to win over the twenty-one aspirants for the championship of the Crimson...
...That picture has been changed by the introduction of a lacquer on the running surfaces of skis. The lacquer is painted on, dries quickly, and forms a protective covering as well as an adequate base for the application of snow-type waxes...
...Taking two runners of equal ability," he said, "the me who has most successfully waxed for the snow and weather conditions encountered will invariably be the winder...