Word: toye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presdwood has changed the story. Last year 100 carloads of Presdwood were sold to Hollywood producers for scene sets, 200 carloads to the automobile industry, another 200 carloads to trailer makers. A relatively new outlet is for concrete forms. Twelve manufacturers fabricate it as artificial tile, and the toy industry takes it in hundreds of carloads. But the building industry is the big market, Presdwood being particularly adaptable to modernistic design. The Masonite house was one of the architectural high spots of Chicago's Century of Progress, was inspected by 3,000,000 people. Latest Masonite product...
...Father Summers' Woolworth Building laboratory a newshawk grasped an electrode in each hand as if he were experimenting with a toy shock machine. The electrodes were attached to an apparatus resembling a radio set, inside which were two balanced electrical circuits, with a two stage amplifier on the input side hooked up to a recording milliammeter. Any electrical agitation the newshawk betrayed under emotional stress would jiggle the milliammeter, make a needle correspondingly scratch a chart...
...Boguslawski learned what makes a news story from his patron. When straight news about himself is scarce, "Bogie" is likely to come forth with such a project as his proposal to promote world peace through voice culture, since animosity arises when unpleasant tones are heard. Mr. Boguslawski likes to toy with the idea that he may be the 20th Century reincarnation of Poland's Frédéric François Chopin. Agile and talkative Moissaye Boguslawski's interest in maintaining circulation in his fingers has sound precedent among other pianists. Josef Hofmann and Paderewski dip theirs...
Candidate Brucker harped on Senator Couzens' defection so much that he was nicknamed "The Toy Hoover." But even these harpings did not seem to damage the Couzens popularity in Michigan at first. Instead of grubbing for renomination in the primary campaign, the Senator rented a yacht, disdainfully went off fishing on the Great Lakes. His cause was still far from lost when he returned to shore last month. Then, against the advice of friends, he boldly announced: "Believing as I do that the most important matter confronting the nation is the re-election of President Roosevelt, I intend...
...Just a toy to enjoy for awhile...