Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...privately-owned transit system. "A little syndicate" was formed with $282,000 worth of contributions from three members: Frank R. Fageol of Kent, Ohio, builder of motor coaches; his vice president Charles B. Rose (now president of America-La France & Foamite Corp.); President William O'Neil of General Tire & Rubber Co. Senator Hastings was put on the syndicate's payroll for $1,000 a month, on General Tire's payroll for another $1,000. He was "loaned" $10,000, promised one-third ($700,000 worth) of Equitable's common stock to dispose of as he liked...
...ragtime craze; that the blues came in when William Christopher Handy took "St. Louis Blues" North; that George Gershwin took jazz into the concert rooms. No one ever accused Composer Kern of starting anything. He has simply written a great many songs of which people never seem to tire, polite, modulated tunes reflective of the musical study he put in in Germany. And he was the first to use saxophones popularly, in 1913.* Smoothly played they seemed to suit his music...
...Bloomington. Ind. ; and tall (6 ft. 2½ in.) James Melton from Ocala, Fla. In 1929, shortly before the quartet took its first European tour, young James Melton married Marjorie Louise McClure, daughter of Novelist Marjorie Barkley McClure. The Revelers earn their big money now broadcasting for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. over a nation-wide hookup. They broadcast for Buick too, over a midwestern hookup. With a substantial Coca-Cola contract be sides, James Melton will make an easy $100,000 this year. It enables him to live in an expensive penthouse apartment, keep a sailing yacht on the Hudson...
...froggy croaks. Trainers, seeing the remaining half of a $10,000 investment shedding weight at the rate of 10 Ib. a day, called doctor after doctor, but no physician's hand could feel that flapping pulse, no stethoscope could reveal the disorder beneath a hide thick as a truck tire. Last week Goliath II still lay in Sarasota and the Circus went on without...
Tornado freakishness was plentiful. At Cassville, Ga. chickens were stripped of their feathers. An automobile owned by a Nashville, Tenn. family went hurtling through the side of a barn without puncturing a tire. Luther Kelley of Sylacauga. Ala. lost his second wife. His first died in the tornado of 1917. At Cleveland, Tenn. an infant was snatched from its mother's arms, dropped into a well, drowned. An Alabama farmer hung on a barbed-wire fence while the wind tore him to pieces. A Georgian sailed into a tree with a piece of wood through his arm, hung there...