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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...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, all machinery will be insulated where it touches floor or wall. Where irritating noises cannot be controlled by insulation, they will...
...heard of a man who went to a tavern one evening and at midnight was discovered in a pigsty, cuddling a teakettle and singing at the top of his voice: They said I was a beauty once, Why don't they say it now? And when attempts were made to raise him up, he persisted in crying out, 'Father, the Sepoys are coming! Let us repel them!"3 In the recipes for drinks Editors Hunt & Chappell stick strictly to business, except for one slip: Kummel Ye Faithful. Only venture into antiquity: the "authentic and secret recipe...
...Boys, we've just hung up a new record," Governor Bilbo had told newsmen. "We've bounced three college presidents and made three new ones in the record time of two hours. And that's just the beginning of what's going to happen." Presidents bounced by the Bilboard of Trustees (composed of two dentists, three lawyers, a physician, a bank cashier, controlling all but State Teachers College) were Chancellor Alfred E. Hume of the University, Buz M. Walker of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, Nellie Kiern of the Women's College.* New heads appointed...
...didn't like this one.") It was and is a collection of frankly bawdy lines and pictures, or innocent double-entendres dependent upon reader-knowledge of an unprintable joke. While Whiz Bang has never been barred from the mails, occasional issues have been held up until they were made passable; and there are sporadic brushes with local authorities over its sale. But in its pages, "hell" appears "h-," or "heck." With the money earned in two years by Whiz Bang, Publisher Fawcett launched upon a largely successful series of publishing ventures, assisted by his brothers Roscoe and (the late...
...glory is a stag party. Famously hospitable. Publisher Fawcett built a lodge in the wilderness on the shores: of Pelican Lake, 170 mi. west of Duluth, to entertain his friends (among his guests have been Vice President Charles Curtis & son). But they came in such droves that he made it into a resort-Breezy Point-now one of the most elaborate showplaces in Minnesota-A crack marksman (manager of victorious U. S. trap-shooters in the 1924 Olympic Games), he keeps at Pelican Lake his countless trophies and his guns, among them a $2,000 elephant gun. Also he maintains...