Word: toye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American that gladdened his heart was Hiram Maxim, whose new machine gun was incomparably the best killing machine Zaharoff had ever seen. Zaharoff took Maxim to his bosom, with reservations. First he used his wily, polyglot salesmanship to block the gun's sale in Austria as an impractical toy; them, when he had offered Maxim a partnership and get the sale of the gun firmly in his own hands he swept over Europe and Asia selling such quantities that soon the new firm of the Maxim-Nordenfeldt Guns & Ammunition Co. was purchased for some $6,000,000 (the year...
While the green finery in the yard and the early activity in the square hold his attention, his new toy steams ahead with magnificent disregard for housewives on their way to market. Brakes screech, ladies squeal, the policeman roars, but Mr. Ballantine, unruffled, speeds by with an air of quiet contemplation to the Music Building...
Among the principal awards are the six Charles Dexter scholarships for the summer of 1934, enable students to visit Oxford and Cambridge in England, of the English cathedral towns.The winners are Lyman E.Butterfield 1G. of Rochester, New York; Samuel P,Chew, Jr 3G, of West River, Maryland Toy Lam son. Jr, 5G. of Cambridge; James S. McLaughlin, 2G of Oberlin, Ohio Brooklyn, New York and Francis L. Utley ,5G, of Escanaba, Michigan...
Backbone of the toy trade is the standard low and medium priced lines whose sales during Depression ranked in stability with food, clothing, shelter. Prices at the fair last week were up 10% to 20% but toymen reported the best early buying in years. Last year fair buying was poor, yet the final Christmas rush was so heavy that they were unable to fill orders...
Titular ruler of the U. S. toy world is William Charles Lehman, big, jovial, redheaded president of Toy Manufacturers of the U.S.A., Inc. Lehman Co. of America (more specifically of Cannelton, Ind.) has been making nursery furniture since 1876. The business is now run by four third generation toymaking Lehman brothers of which the oldest and wisest is William Charles. At the fair last week, the Brothers Lehman's pride & joy, was a 275-lb. high chair, built for display, from which no baby could escape. Even an adult locked in behind the tray cannot overtip...