Word: neatness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrap a chicken they now stretch a latex bag over the top of a hollow metal cylinder. From the bottom air is withdrawn, sucking the bag in, until it forms a neat lining on the cylinder's walls. The chicken is popped in, air is exhausted from the bag, its mouth is closed. Then as the bag is dipped in warm water, it shrinks to fit skin-tight and almost invisible around the chicken...
Studebaker Corp. has a neat biography. Founded in 1852 by two bearded brothers who made wagons, it is the U.S.'s oldest vehicle maker. Its net sales once reached $166,000,000. It once employed famed Knute Rockne as a sort of supersalesman. When the company failed in 1933, after three years of refusing to admit the existence of Depression I, its grand old man, President Albert R. Erskine, went home and shot himself. Later, under former Vice Presidents Paul Hoffman and Harold S. Vance, it became the first automobile company to reorganize under famed Section...
Wife, Husband and Friend (Twentieth Century-Fox). Loretta Young, Warner Baxter and Cesar Romero in a domestic comedy rescued from complete mediocrity by a few neat twists in Nunnally Johnson's script...
...Manners." A neat rear-guard action was executed by Mr. Hopkins in a parenthetic reference to the "generous peace" of the TVA-Commonwealth & Southern settlement...
Talented Financier Groves had popped up in Wall Street with some money he made in Baltimore, pieced together a few wobbly investment trusts under the name of Equity Corp. and sold them to David Milton, son-in-law of John D. Rockefeller Jr., for a neat profit of $750,000. After that, he bought control of Phoenix Securities Corp., an inconspicuous investment trust then worth some $4,000,000, lured young Walter Mack Jr. away from Equity Corp. to help him run it. Financier Mack comes of a wealthy family, was 1917 at Harvard, operated a cotton mill...