Word: meters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Briggs Cunningham's Lulu: the Scandinavian Gold Cup, outstanding international trophy for six-meter yachts; off Oyster...
Early in 1935, Editor Carlton Cole Magee of the Oklahoma News invented a device which he called the Dual Park-O-Meter because it had two purposes: to control parking, provide revenue. A typical parking meter is a waist-high metal post standing at curb's edge and crowned with a dial and a simple slot machine. When a coin is inserted, the meter marks time for the car parked beside it. When time is up, the driver must move his car away or risk a summons. In November 1935, Oklahoma City tried 174 of Editor Magee...
...Peet Co. has been advertising Palmolive shaving creams with a Wednesday night coast-to-coast radio melodrama called "Gang-busters." Produced by smart young Benton & Bowles advertising agency, which claims 20,000,000 listeners for the program, "Gangbusters" dramatizes actual criminal careers. The killing of Dillinger Gangster Homer Van Meter was the subject of one hair-raising episode, but "Gangbusters" has not confined itself to dead lawbreakers. The dramatization of the capture of Massachusetts' murdering Millen Brothers was broadcast prior to their electrocution and many a live but lesser robber, forger and gangster has had his story told. Until...
...today, out of Van Meter, Iowa, came the news for which the world has been breathlessly waiting. Bob Feller, sensational 18 year old pitching find of the Cleveland Indians, has passed his psychology examination, final hurdle between him and a high school degree...
Lack of general interest caused its gradual decline and fall. Now the swing of events, according to backers, prompts its reappearance on the scene alongside the CRIMSON and the Student Council as a meter on the undergraduate pulse...