Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will continue to manage its Cleveland factory. Furniture & Furnishings. If a hotel, restaurant, hospital, school, railroad or ship requires furnishings, the source of supply usually first thought of is Albert Pick, Barth Inc., largest company of its kind. Last week it became larger by absorbing seven companies that manufacture wooden or sheet metal furniture and sell the pieces through chains of retail furniture stores. A $30,000,000 consolidation, this was the greatest in the history of furniture and allied industries. Milwaukee Dairies. To make ice cream, cheese, butter and other milk products on a vast scale and to sell...
...curtain rises, Dr. Palely is apprehended walking slowly in a circle within a bare, white-washed room. In the center of the circle upon a swivel chair sits a Wistful Youth. In his mouth is firmly embedded a large wooden bath thermometer. After a lapse of about three minutes Dr. Palely speaks...
This year, for the first time two tracks will be available, a cinder one in the new baseball cage, and a wooden one on Soldiers Field, as in former years. Although it has not yet been completed, it will be ready for Monday's practice...
...track, and no time trials will be held until January, Coach Farrell said. The long distance men will train with roadwork until unfavorable weather forces them indoors. They will then use the cinder track to avoid the strain on the leg muscles caused, by running long distances on wooden boards...
President Wiley Lin Hurie was glum. His College of the Ozarks at Clarksville, Ark., needed-money, badly. The men's dormitory must be completed . . . the men were sleeping in wooden shacks they had built themelves . . . poor sons of poor fathers mountaineers, pure-bred Anglo-Saxon stock, much inbred, but unalloyed the girl students too, stout hearted. . . scrimp and save and slave for the $250 tuition and living expenses. . . cheapest charge for a bachelor's degree in Arkansas. The dormitory must be completed; the walls are up the boys laid the foundation and did all the common labor...