Word: highs
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...world's strangest buildings last week in Fitchburg, Mass. He was Alvan Tracy Simonds, president since 1913 of Simonds Saw & Steel Co. For him Austin Co., Cleveland construction engineers, is building the first windowless factory, designed to increase the output of manpower 33 ⅓%. The structure, one story high, consists of only one large room covering about five acres in which executives may sit undisturbed while saws are machine-made all about them. Roof (the most expensive ever put in a factory-$175,000), walls, floor will be of noise-absorbing material. To eliminate the communication of vibration...
...LIONS' DEN-Janet Fairbank- Bobbs-Merritt ($2.50).† When young Daniel Carson was elected Congressman from his Wisconsin district, he went to Washington full of ambition and high ideals. Poor, unmarried, a farmer, he had lived a progressive but black-&-white life, and as a Congressman expected to do the same on a grander scale. In Washington he was seen with the wrong people, got off to a bad start. His ambition found little outlet on the Committee on the Disposition of Useless Executive Papers. Then he met Senator Miller's wife, beautiful, socially powerful, a teaser. Congressman...
...will buy drinks for the crowd. . . . As is customary in Triangle shows, the script is peppered with undergraduate lampoons on the Princeton faculty, curriculum and social system, which are more interesting to student audiences and immediate relatives of the cast than to the public at large. A new high is set in Princeton satire, however, with a song which demonstrates how to become a member of one of the better Princeton clubs, particularly how to greet classmates on the main campus thoroughfare, McCosh walk. "Doing the McCosh walk" advises young men to arch their backs, protrude their chests, ignore less...
...evening last fortnight some 200 University of Mississippi students stood about watching a dummy burning high on their campus flagpole. It was an effigy of Mississippi's stormy, scarfaced (from a pistol-butt) little Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo. No riotous impulse but a well-organized gesture was the effigy-burning, representing student disapproval of Governor Bilbo's lavish dismissal last summer of 179 officials and faculty members in four of Mississippi's state-controlled institutions (University of Mississippi, Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, Mississippi State College for Women, State Teachers College...
Battle Stories (132,000) and Screen Secrets (140,000) came in 1926. The latter began as Paris & Hollywood, consisting of pictures of females. Next month it is to become Screen Play, a "high class fan magazine." Also in 1926 Whiz Bang's poetry column budded off as Smokehouse Monthly, ". . . dedicated to all glorious guzzlers, woozy warblers, rakes, scallawags, and other good people who still be lieve in the joy of living." The "smoke house" in the masthead is drawn to re semble a backhouse. Strangely out of keeping with its unmannered fellows is Amateur Golfer & Sportsmen, a smart, tasteful...