Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seaport 75 miles from the sea. Altona is to Hamburg as Camden is to Philadelphia, a swarming, separately administered suburb on the River (Elbe). In Altona are workingmen's flats, deserted factories, ramshackle athletic clubs, empty lots cut up into thousands of little gardens each with a tool shed, many with a flagpole and a red Communist flag. Late last Sunday afternoon good citizens in Hamburg cafes looked up from their beer and ice cream as big blue busses filled with policemen careened by, buglers blowing a fanfare in place of a siren. Weary waiters opined that there...
...trade, offered a $10 prize for a patriotic U. S. art slogan. Last week Commercial Artist Valentine Sandberg won the $10 but the League made a few changes. He had put his clarion call in a design of crossed artists' brushes. The League added a compass, a modeling tool and a crayon to symbolize all its members. And it changed Artist Sandberg's slogan, "Choose American Art" to "I Am For American Art," the design from a rectangle to an oval, the inscription "American Artists" to "The American Artists Professional League...
...Mine," "Row, Row, Row," "Chinatown," and his latest, "Get Out and Get Under the Moon." His wife, the former Maude Nugent, wrote "Sweet Rosie O'Grady." Died. Alexander Winton, 72, pioneer automobile manufacturer; of old age; in Cleveland. He was born in Scotland, son of a farm tool maker. His Winton Motor Carriage Co. (incorporated 1897) was first to use a self-starter (compressed air) in the U. S. In Detroit in 1901 he raced with Henry Ford and lost; lost another race in Ireland because a frightened Irishman put candles in the gasoline tank to "keep away...
...Preparedness Day parade. .Their insensate hatred of our present form of government and a desire to substitute the Red flag for the Stars & Stripes impelled them to commit the deed. Mooney and [Warren K.] Billings entered into a conspiracy to terrify the citizens by exploding a bomb. Billings, tool and agent of Mooney, carried the bomb in a suitcase. . . . Mooney has not presented any facts in support of his petition which have not heretofore been presented. . . . The 'frame-up' story has been exploded as was the suitcase containing the bomb. . . . The apotheosis of Tom Mooney by the oratorical...
...pipes, radiators, silica gel, plumbing, gas, electricity. Several concerns have already assumed leadership in the industry: Carrier Engineering Corp., Newark, N. J., Lewis Corp., Minneapolis; Doherty-Brehm, Chicago; A. C. Gilbert (toymaker), New Haven; Frigidaire Corp., Davton. Several are swinging in: York Ice Machinery Corp., York, Pa.; Western Tool & Mfg. Co., Springfield, Ohio; American Blower Corp., Detroit; Holland Furnace Co., Holland, Mich.; B. F. Sturtevant Co., Boston; Timken Silent Automatic Corp., Detroit...