Word: yarns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sebastian Spering Kresge sells Odo-ro-no, oilcloth, paper, pins, ribbons, rods, soaps, suspenders, tacks, thread, ungents, union suits, valentines, vaseline, wire, xylophones, yarn, yardsticks...
Capone told Philadelphia officials a yarn about effecting a gang truce for Chicago while in Atlantic City, whereby the Beer Racket would be peacefully divided between what remained of his old mob and that of George ("Bugs") Moran. Chicago officials were skeptical of any such blessing, but, good sportsmen, they congratulated Philadelphia on putting Capone behind the bars for the first time in his notorious career...
North Carolina. Gastonia, N. C., is named for William Gaston, onetime (1875-76) Massachusetts Governor. There the Manville-Jenckes Co., Pawtucket, R. I., operates the Loray Mills, producing yarn for cord tires. Six months ago the National Textile Workers Union began organizing in this and neighboring mills. Last week they came into the open, called a strike answered by 1,000 Loray workers. They demanded: a $20 minimum weekly wage, a 40-hour (five-day) week, abolition of the "stretch-out" system, a 50% cut in company rents and light rates, recognition of the union. The mill operators refused...
Good recent Wallaces are The Clever One, an engrossing tale of counterfeit money, and The Twister, ingenious yarn of English race tracks and Dutch diamond swindles. Old favorites are: A King by Night, The Green Archer, The Door with Seven Locks, The Girl From Scotland Yard, two of which Queen Mary bought at a London three-penny-six-penny shop for the king (TIME, March...
Author E. Phillips Oppenheim's latest detective justifies himself, and the author, by spinning his own yarn, The Treasure House of Martin Hews (Little, Brown, $2), packed with murderers, shocks, electric gadgets...