Word: used
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talking about ever since, however, is the behavior of the club's 25-year-old coach, honey-haired English Teacher Isabelle Hallin. An experienced summer trouper who spent three seasons with the Garrick Players at Kennebunkport, Me., Saugus-bred Miss Hallin wears attractive, form-fitting dresses, makes adroit use of cosmetics. Moreover, six Bishop rehearsals had been held in the cellar of her home. Were cigarets served? Cocktails? What happened...
...Bureau of Air Commerce. The letter demanded that the Washington Airport be designated a "two-way" field, which would reduce it to the emergency or auxiliary class. The pilots declared that after 60 days they would not land heavy, high-speed planes unless the wind were favorable for using the long runway, and that they were "seriously considering" a refusal to use the field under any circumstances...
...first big Westinghouse coups was the installation of 36 top-speed (1,400 ft. per min.) elevators in Radio City's 69-story Rockefeller Tower. These smooth performers differ from Otis elevators in the use of photo-electric cells instead of the usual electrical contacts for braking and for leveling off at each floor. In en- gineering innovations Westinghouse has kept in stride with Otis by matching Otis' double-decker elevators in Manhattan's Cities Service Building with a system for running two elevators in the same shaft. But Otis' great advantage lies in its maintenance...
Originally the plan was to use the ax on Chesapeake, retaining Alleghany, which was the company the "Babes" bought from old Mr. Ball. But of the two, Chesapeake had a far better name with the public, and Messrs. Young, Kirby & Kolbe have demonstrated an uncommon flair for public relations. To newshawks last week Mr. Young handed photostats of the chart used by the Wheeler committee during the Washington hearings on the Van Sweringen empire. Through all holding companies which have been, or would be, segregated or eliminated on completion of the Alleghany-Chesapeake merger, Mr. Young had drawn heavy black...
Present Calcutta price for jute is 3¾? per lb.; for burlap, 3¾? per yd. Of all burlap imported from India, about 35% goes for automobile accessories, furniture wrapping and backing for linoleum and carpets. Ford Motor Co. used to buy 1,000,000 yds. a month for Model T upholstery. But the principal use for burlap is in sacks. In 1930 U. S. sack manufacturers made 525,000,000 burlap bags, sold them for $45,000,000. Last year production was 438,000,000 bags, sales $35,000,000. It takes about 1⅓ yds. of burlap...