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...Huff & cuff as they might last week, the girl-birlers failed to get rid of Miss Malott. In the final, hoofing like a jitterbug, she took petite Bette Berkley, an 18-year-old stenographer from the sawmill town of Longview, Wash., for two straight falls...
Delta started in June 1929, when gruff, farm-minded Collett Everman Woolman deserted his profitable crop-dusting business (done with Huff-Daland Dusters and other hedgehoppers) to ferry passengers between Dallas and Birmingham. For 16 months it looked like a good switch: passengers were more lucrative than insecticides, and safer. But in October 1930, postal officials pushed him off the airline map, gave a fat mail contract to rival American Airlines. Disgusted, Woolman sold his passenger equipment to American, went back to dusting...
When Hearst lawyers stalled on bringing the action to trial Cottier's huff-puffed: "We take our courage in both hands and say 'boo.' '' The suit was mysteriously dropped...
Until 1905, milk bottles and fruit jars were made by blowers who worked molten glass into bubbles, dropped the bubbles into molds, huff-puffed them into shape. The most leather-lunged glass blowers could turn out no more than 800 bottles a day. Then one of them named Michael J. Owens, even longer on brains than on wind, built a machine which produced 30,000 a day. His invention made glassware a mass-production industry overnight. It also molded one of the tightest patent controls ever known in U. S. manufacturing...
...jackets of workmen, stiffened red hands that had to be warmed up before the glowing maws of smoking salamanders. The rain did not slow up the work, any more than the snow had: on & on went the chatter of pneumatic hammers, the shouts of glaziers and concrete workers, the huff-puff of switch engines. Work had to go on. For that building, 500 feet wide, more than a quarter-mile (1,380 feet) long, was to be the first quantity-production source of a most important weapon: medium tanks...