Word: barreling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Despite its relative obscurity, success of the issue was assured because of Dow's impeccable position in its field. Dow Chemical Co. is not widely known to the public because it does not sell directly to the consumer. For example, Dow sells aspirin (acetyl salicylic acid) by the barrel or sack, lets someone else put an advertised name on the drugstore package. It sticks to the primary manufacture of essential ingredients, lets others make the trade names...
...current world-wide boom. In Stuben, Austria, near the Tyrolean border, Hannes Schneider grew up when Alpine skiing, imported from Norway where it had become a major sport 20 years before, was in its infancy. Norwegian skiers skied standing up straight. After he had learned to ski on barrel staves, used them to win a race for which the prize was his first pair of real skis. Hannes Schneider decided that, for long, steep, irregular Alpine slopes, standing up straight on skis was impractical. He started to ski in a crouch. In the next 30 years skiing in a crouch...
...colorful Barco story. Promoter MacFadden has long since been out of the company. Oilman Doherty tired of jungle oil in 1926, sold out his majority interest to Andrew William Mellon's Gulf Oil Corp. Then the concession was canceled, litigated, finally granted anew. This year, with not a barrel of oil yet delivered from the fabulous concession, Mr. Mellon sold out to Texas Corp. and Socony-Vacuum for some $12,500,000 (TIME...
...Tomb in the Red Square, and all Russia knows that the few men permitted to stand there with J. Stalin during a popular review are always his prime favorites of the moment. Next, the highest Soviet decoration, the Order of Lenin, was last week pinned on the barrel-chest of Comrade Litvinoff by Stalin's frontman, twinkly-eyed old Russian President Mikhail Kalinin...
...tours he sent his wife a telegram: "Am in Market Harborough. Where ought I to be?" Another time Shaw persuaded him to take part in a cinema, saying it was being produced by Barrie. Chesterton let himself be dressed in a cowboy suit, submitted to being rolled in a barrel, roped over a fake precipice, ordered to make faces at the camera, before he was politely informed that the whole scheme had been dropped. When he heard that William Archer was also hood winked he was content. "God forbid," he said, "that anyone should...