Word: yarns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appreciative Plagiarist Carter conned periodicals, selected a daring yarn from Air Trails, fiction monthly. Last July, he sold it, retyped under the name "Fortune Flying," to Fiction House, Inc., Manhattan publishers of the magazine Wings. By similar cozenage he had managed to extract $1,100 from the company...
...iron tack were put near a mountain of pure iron, the tack would weigh more than it did before. This scientific conditional relative known as "induced mass," Author Taine has made the basis for a hair-raising yarn of an African primeval god, a subterranean mass of meteoric metal whose emanations corrupt the souls of men and change their bodies; the startling adventures among a tribe of degenerated human beings of three sane Chicago scientists and their pretty secretary. The Iron Star is unusual among thrillers not only in its subject-matter but in the skeptical and light-hearted...
...wool. The coalition of Democrats and Progressive Republicans wilted badly under the pressure of sectional interests. The wool rates went up, but not before Joseph R. Grundy, longtime tariff lobbyist, now Senator from Pennsylvania, had startled his comrades-in-arms with a display of tariff chivalry. A wool yarn manufacturer himself, he announced on the vote (35-to-29) which increased the duty on this commodity: "I am interested in the industry sheltered under this paragraph. Therefore I withhold my vote." Skeptical observers wondered what he would have done had the vote been closer...