Word: squeakly
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Last week another vast business passed, from the family that built it, toward the hands of the public. Eldridge R. Johnson, the Camden, N. J., mechanic who 32 years ago took the squeak out of toy phonographs like the ones he saw at Coney Island; his son, E. R. Fenimore Johnson, and his secretary, H. R. Hathaway, turned over a majority holding of common stock in the Victor Talking Machine Co. to J. and W. Seligman & Co., Manhattan brokers, and Speyer & Co., Manhattan bankers. For all 348,863 shares outstanding, the buyers were prepared to pay some 40 millions hospital...
...Four thousand one hundred," came the squeak...
...Cathedral of Cologne. Over 100,000 Rhinelanders waited breathlessly for the largest church bell in Europe to toll the hour of midnight, to announce that the last Allied soldier had actually departed from the First Rhineland Occupied Zone. Slowly the great bell teetered on its pivots, causing a faint squeak to be broadcast over the radio to all Germany by the great Koenigswusterhausen Station. Then came the triumphant clang of the clapper itself, followed by the roar of the crowds. "Deutschland! Deutschland ueber Alles!" they chanted, and then joined in the old hymn "Grosser Gott, wir loben Dich." Lifting their...
...There will be labor trouble this autumn." That is a prediction few people like to hear, but it is being made. Last week, a loud squeak broke the long labor peace. U. S. marshals in West Virginia arrested four members of the United Mine Workers. They refused bail, were jailed. Warrants were issued for other labor organizers and even for the master of them all-John L. Lewis. Their crime, if any, seems to have been an attempt to unionize a section which, by legal agreement, is nonunion...
...some do swear you're often known to squeak...