Word: toileting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newspaper readers who remember the Gastonia, N. C. mill strike (TIME, Aug. 12, 1929, et seq.) will recognize bits of the ensuing trial scene. Trial highspots: the prosecution raises a laugh against a defense witness by hanging on him the old joke about getting syphilis in a toilet; the defense successfully counters by showing that a prosecution witness once got drunk, took a horse into a church. The 15 defendants were pronounced guilty; Ring leader Marvin got 25 years in jail. Harry Baumann, caught trying to set fire to his father's mill, sought a final sensation by shooting...
...swarthy gunman named Joie Rao, kept sleek and well-pressed by his underlings. Rao, onetime boxer, was shaving when Deputy Commissioner Marcus ordered him to get along with the rest of his henchmen to solitary cells. Prisoner Rao insolently remarked that he would when he finished his toilet. Deputy Marcus, a boxer in his time at West Point, made short shrift of that kind of talk...
...field dived Chris-Craft, the company founded by Christopher Columbus Smith and now run by himself, his four sons, three grandsons and two granddaughters. They offered a utility runabout for $495. Another notable new Chris-Craft is the 24-ft. family cruiser with four berths, stove, ice box and toilet for $1,495. The minimum in overnight comfort (two berths) in a utility cruiser, can be had for $1,295 plus $45 for a toilet. Chris-Craft also has its line of runabouts, ranging up to a showy 27-footer...
...move, since anthrax is infectious but not contagious and hence there was no danger of an epidemic. The Housing Department launched an investigation with a view to cleaning up the hovels provided for Sack workers. The Labor Department gave Owner Sack 30 days to install sanitary lunch, dressing and toilet facilities, make his mill a decent place to work...
Mistake No. 2 came two years later. Returning from Oregon where he had coached football, he invested his new savings in a silent toilet-flusher. The flusher turned out to be noisy...