Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About 3,000,000 of the telephone poles now standing are products of Joslyn Manufacturing & Supply Co. of Chicago. This is less than one-twentieth the number that U. S. travelers see flicking past them on the highways of the land, but it is enough to make Joslyn the biggest independent U. S. telephone pole supplier.* From Idaho it gets trimmed poles of western red cedar, 25 to 35 ft. tall, creosotes them at its Chicago plant and sells them for $5 to $7. The company also manufactures a complete line of cross-arms, insulators, brackets, pins and other power...
...promoter of at least one annual boxing match for Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's Free Milk Fund for Babies, decided to discontinue that practice. Asked if he would stage a fight for the Milk Fund, Mike Jacobs, No. 1 Manhattan ticket speculator for a decade, promptly formed the Twentieth Century Sporting Club, became a fight promoter in opposition to the Garden. In 1935, after signing up a promising young Negro heavyweight named Joe Louis, he made $160,000 for the Milk Fund, $130,000 for the baseball parks where the fights were held, unknown sums for himself...
...Have Everything (Twentieth Century-Fox) was interesting to the Hays Office chiefly as the debut of Cinemactress Louise Hovick, who was Stripper Gypsy Rose Lee before Manhattan's burlesque theatres were abruptly curtailed last spring. Disguised under several changes of expensive wraps, Miss Hovick stalks innocuously through You Can't Have Everything without appreciably altering its merits as a smart and tuneful musical, cut from the same unpretentious pattern as its predecessors in Producer Darryl Zanuck's recent musical cycle (Sing Baby Sing, Pigskin Parade, One in a Million, On the Avenue, Wake Up and Live...
...week Bubble Dancer Sally Rand will appear as the freak draw in They Knew What They Wanted), and the new Boothbay Play house, Lakewood gets its customers from all over the State. Usual week's gross is $2,500. Three years ago, when Groucho Marx appeared in Twentieth Century, the take was doubled. Skowheganites say that fish came out of the lake to see that show...
Slave Ship (Twentieth Century-Fox). Last known U. S. slave ship was The Wanderer, built as a yacht, the fastest craft flying the burgee of the New York Yacht Club. In 1857 her owner, John D. Johnson, sold her to a fellow club-member, W. C. Corrie. New York yachtsmen did not know much about Corrie. He was a mysterious but affable gentleman, amply provided with funds, who professed an interest in the finer points of yachting and declared himself in the market for a speedy boat. After buying The Wanderer he was no longer seen around the club. Refitted...