Word: wooded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain Hammy Wood at tackle will be the mainstay of the Jayvee line ably assisted by Johnny Dimmeff at left end and Gus Soule at right guard...
...Wood Industries, Inc.: a garbage truck body with a hydraulic ram tailboard which, as garbage is dumped in at the rear, presses it forward, squeezes garbage juice into a tank. Claims: dry garbage burns better, squashed garbage takes up less room...
Many a sophisticated Manhattan housewife last week, tardily opening her October bills, blinked as she scanned her laundry statement. Instead of the familiar Croydon Trousseau Laundry, the billhead read: Shields-Wood Service. Proprietors: Francis X. Shields, Sidney B. Wood...
...billhead meant what it said. Francis X. Shields and Sidney B. Wood, the young tennists whose teamwork was the talk of two continents in 1931 when they reached the semi-finals of the U. S. and Wimbledon Doubles Championships, had teamed up again, in the laundry business...
...Contrary to current impression, Sid doesn't spend his days leaning over a washtub and I don't do the ironing," said Partner Shields, kidded by fellow men-about-town. Nevertheless, Socialites Wood and Shields-one the owner of a California gold mine and the other a Broadway insurance broker-have not yet missed a day at the laundry. Last week Partner Wood entrained for California on his first washtub business trip. At Santa Monica he will open a branch laundry, to be managed by Tennist Frankie Parker...