Word: trueman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TRUEMAN E. O'QuiNN...
...Friends, R. E. Dillon and J. H. Trueman, lived in a little wooden town in Kansas. They played checkers on winter nights, talked in the summer. Dillon? Irish, arrogant, with a musically vibrating voice and a changeable grey eye?was the town's biggest banker. Trueman, solid and more of a sport, was a cattleman. Their friendship was impressive, impervious to differences in their characters. It had become as substantial as a monument before it ended, in a breath of anger over politics, the year Bryan first ran for President...
Durium is the recent invention of Dr. Hal Trueman Beans, Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. It is a synthetic resin, somewhat like bakelite. In its original form it is a liquid composition the color of varnish which when exposed to heat becomes so solid that dropping or mild whacks will do it no harm. Like varnish too it can be spread with a brush but there the resemblance stops. Durium hardens so quickly that phonograph records, which are pressed from metal disks, can be stamped on it with the speed of a printing press. The manufacture of records...