Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still is. An original capital investment of $50,000 has produced a $42,468,000 company. Mainly on body business from such motor makers as Ford, Chrysler and Packard, Briggs last year earned $9,266,000. To diversify its manufactures the company has lately developed a line of lightweight stamped iron bathroom fixtures with a porcelain finish called "Brig-steel" which it says is cheaper to ship and install than conventional products...
...Pacific and Union Pacific, ordered 2,000 new refrigerator cars, announced reconstruction of 1,750 old ones, at a total cost of $10,500,000. For joint service between Chicago and the Pacific Coast, Union Pacific, Southern Pacific and Chicago & North Western ordered two 17-car, streamlined. Diesel-electric lightweight trains from Pullman and General Motor's Electro-Motive Corp...
Since the days when its left-handed Lew Tendler used to fight Lightweight Champion Benny Leonard so regularly that the names of the two fighters sounded like the title of a corporation, Philadelphia has always had at least one first-rate functioning fighter of one sort or another. Tendler, now a 180-lb. restaurateur, is the manager of Philadelphia's latest pugilistic hope, a large blond Italian named Al Ettore. Without fighting much outside his home town, Ettore had by last summer managed to get enough local following to justify a bout with famed Joe Louis, who is trying...
Arrow Aircraft Corp. of Lincoln, Neb. claims it is waiting only for the financial aspects of its founding to be settled before going into mass production in a few weeks to fill the 1,000-odd orders for flivver planes it has on hand. Its plane is a conventional lightweight, low-wing monoplane. The Ford motor is set in reverse position so that the propeller is attached where the clutch normally is when the engine is used on an automobile. Ford Motor Co. has no connection with Arrow, sells motors in batches so that they cost Arrow but $150 apiece...
Died, Patrick ("Packey") McFarland, 47, famed oldtime lightweight, welterweight boxer; of a streptococcus infection; in Joliet, Ill. In eleven years (1904-15) he fought 108 fights, scored 48 knockouts, lost the decision only once...