Word: triplex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Take My Tip (by Nat N. Dorfman; Mack Hilliard, producer) is, of course, about the 1929 stockmarket crash. A not overbright Connecticut householder has bet his shirt on something called Triplex Oil and, sure enough, Triplex Oil takes a devastating tumble. Playwright Dorfman is not so sanguine as to have Triplex Oil ride the Connecticut punter and the play back to prosperity and happiness. That end of the comedy is taken care of by a machine, well "planted" in Act I, for engraving monograms on soap...
Five years ago Triplex Safety Glass Co., Ltd. of Great Britain organized an affiliate in the U. S. Last week the U. S. company planned to sell its patent rights, also most of its assets, to Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. for L-O-F stock worth about $170,000 plus $25,000 cash to pay for liquidation, plus an unstated sum for some of the Triplex inventory. The large Triplex plant at Clifton, N. J., will be resold to Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. which will be given manufacturing licenses, will share Triplex's big Ford windshield contract with...
...body as a machine to the experiments of spiritualism, the latest theories of consciousness. Says the senior partner of himself: "[He] is the least well equipped scientifically. His share has been mainly literary and editorial and he is responsible for the initiation and organization of the whole scheme. . . . The triplex author claims to be wedded to no creed, associated with no propaganda; he is telling what he believes to be the truth about life. so far as it is known...
Next was born TripleX. Under the same basic title, the magazine would follow public taste like a weather vane, giving in turn stories of war, flying, crime, etc. Currently it is Triple-X Western (115,000). Author Jim Tully got his start when Triple-X first published his Beggars of Life...
While friends of Sherman M. Fairchild, president of Fairchild Aviation Corp., played bridge with his aunt on the first floor of his triplex Manhattan penthouse, a thief stole in, made away with $10,000 worth of sapphire, diamond jewelry...