Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happiest little airplane factory in the U. S. last week was the Aeronca plant at Cincinnati. Aeronca usually makes just two ships in December, but an ex-tap dancer's amazing stunt had upped December orders...
...guerrillas also have a transvestite stunt that has taken toll on the Japanese. Chinese youths dress as girls, lure Japanese into the countryside, where waiting guerrillas fall upon them...
Last week American Export's owners pulled off a stunt almost as daring as William Coverdale's plan. To finance the air service, they launched a $924,000 common stock issue in Wall Street, where money for the soberest of schemes has lately been scarce. A Lehman Brothers syndicate, which offered the 88,000 shares at $10.50 apiece, called the flotation "successful...
Unless Correspondent Anderson's "defense program"* (TIME, Oct., 10) was a tongue-in-cheek stunt it is high time he was taught that all Cornellians worthy of the name are accustomed to follow an inadvertent brrp with apologies, not an announcement of the Alma Mater...
...favorite public relations stunt of big companies is to show customers or the public through their factories. Last May Western Electric Co. held open house in its Hawthorne Works at Chicago primarily for employes and their friends. The employes liked it so much that last week Western Electric held open house in its big Point Breeze plant near Baltimore. During the week 25,000 people, many of them employes seeing other jobs than their own for the first time, many of them local bigwigs, herded through a mile and a half of roped runways, saw spools do a Maypole dance...