Word: wagoneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like its journalistic forbear. Ballyhoo concentrates on kidding advertisements. When Comedian Howard is chief concentrator, it is funny. There are few good tunes (one of them: "While We Have Bromo Seltzer in Our Love Nest") to make Ballyhoo another Band Wagon, which it tries hard...
Early last week Grandmother Zetkin, now 75, lay sick abed in Moscow, her "second home," for she is a duly elected Communist Deputy in the German Reichstag. Came an ambulance. Frau Zetkin was carried to a Soviet wagon lit bound for Berlin. Day & night tough-muscled young Reds stood guard in the train lest German Fascists break in. Grandmother Zetkin was going to the German capital to open the newly elected Reichstag (TIME...
...given him his biggest thrills in life. Replied the Colonel: "Yes and no. . . . Looking back now I doubt if I ever felt more elated than when I was a youngster and on occasions would go galloping out driving the ambulance to bring in one of our ailing brewery wagon horses. And what a thrill I had once when I mounted the seat and actually took out one of our tandem outfits. . . . When the elevated railroad structures were built it sounded the knell of tandems pulling brewery wagons. It was too much of a trick to guide them...
...Lindbergh, rested from the ordeal of motherhood, listened delightedly to the shrill wails of the new arrival. . . ." Universal: ". . . He came at 7:30 o'clock in the white nursery of the Morrow home at Englewood. . . ." Chicago Tribune: ". . . The estate was quiet except for the rumble of the milk wagon and arrival of Dr. Edward Hawkes and three other specialists. . . ." Similarly the New York American, World-Telegram and Sun. Times, Herald Tribune, Evening Post contented themselves with reporting that the baby was born at the Morrow estate. More cautiously, the Associated Press merely put the birth announcement under an Englewood...
...most lowly looking businessmen in the U. S. is the junkman with his knobby old horse and ramshackle wagon, collecting old rags, old bottles, bones and scrap iron. Yet when Junkman Bill Kearns of Chicago died, it was found he had accumulated more than $1,000,000 (TIME, Aug. 15). There are 150,000 itinerant junkmen in the U. S. From their humble beginnings has come the half billion-dollar scrap iron and steel industry. Founded by Russian Jews who swarmed to the U. S. in the last century, it now supplies the steel industry with over...