Word: truck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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People! Nov. 18! Ethel Barrymore and a cargo of Bronx cheers for every performance! Of all the - -* women she undoubtedly takes the highest honors. In truck drivers it is temper, in artists it is temperament. . . . A lady...
...from fervent hosannas for President Roosevelt, Candidate Chandler's campaign platform-economy, no State sales tax-differed not at all from that of his Republican opponent, austere Judge King Swope. But loud, toothy, red-headed "Happy" Chandler, onetime newsboy, jazz bandleader and football coach, got himself a sound truck with a live rooster for a radiator emblem, put on a Huey Longish campaign such as Kentuckians had not enjoyed for years. Result: a 95,000 majority for Chandler...
...pictures which moved while an Edison phonograph talked. The Brothers Lumière produced at about the same time pictures thrown on a screen. The Lumière camera which took them could be carried in one hand. The Edison camera of similar date was portable on a truck. Of the early projection machines, the Lumières' was manifestly the best, but it was bad enough, as M. Le President and the diplomats agreed last week. The august audience saw a French train of 1895 chuff into a station, watched a gardener wet a fat man with...
...took his cabs away from the hotels, cruised them around the streets, painted them yellow, cut fares from 40? to 20? a mile. He organized additional Yellow Cab companies, at one time controlled 95% of U. S. cabs outside New York. He also went into the taxicab, bus and truck manufacturing business with the Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. and started the Hertz Drivurself hired-car system. In 1925 he sold the manufacturing and Drivurself business to General Motors for $43,000,000, also disposed of his Yellow Cab holdings...
...father hewed by hand, of his own early years spent farming in California's San Gabriel Valley. At the age when most would-be composers are hard at their technical training, Roy Harris was soldiering. When the War was over he went West again, drove a farm truck. He studied briefly at the University of California where his first interest was philosophy, which he deserted when he found it was just "word juggling." He turned gropingly toward music because for him it had an absolute value...