Word: trailers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week "Phil" Plant and his second wife put their special floating trailer aboard ship in Manhattan, set sail for Africa to collect ostriches and wart hogs for the American Museum of Natural History. But pheasants from the Plant collection of 3,000, one of the largest in the East, were among the Nepal Kaleeges, Blue Manchurians, Cheers, Versicolors and Impeyans which graced the Poultry Show. "They're just to look at," explains Fancier Plant. "They might replace peacocks that people keep in penthouses. They're like a miniature peacock, but they're more dainty. There...
...relief of their socialite constituents the city councilmen of Palm Beach last week thumbed down a proposed town trailer camp, decreed that the presence of more than one automobile trailer on a private lot constituted a public nuisance. In another rebuff to tin-can tourists the Palm Beach councilmen limited the parking of trailers on streets or highways to one hour, prohibited cooking in them during that period...
...about the same 1936 class was President Arthur Sherman of Covered Wagon Co., biggest auto trailerman of the first Auto-Trailer Year...
Nine years ago when trailers were a rarity, residents of the six New England States began observing on their highways an odd vehicle, no trailer but a house car, its sides as neatly clapboarded as a village church. It was a church, complete with folding pulpit and collapsible organ, built by a New Hampshire toy manufacturer for a Baptist minister named Herbert R. Whitelock. With his motherly wife Edith Sisson Whitelock, this man of God had spent many a summer preaching in parks, factories, on street corners and village greens...
Beginning this week, Preacher Whitelock planned to pack his wife and belongings in what he calls "the Chassis Church," take to the road for good. After a tour of northern New England the Whitelocks will head for the paradise of trailer folk, Florida. There they will put to full use a technique which has earned them some fame broadcasting as "Uncle Herb and Aunt Ede" over small New England radio stations. Brisk, 50-year-old Uncle Herb preaches the gospel to crowds attracted by Aunt Ede's singing, to her own accompaniment. Says...