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...peak and made 1935 the second biggest truck year in U. S. history. The trend to lighter trucks, however, has reduced dollar volume, which was more than 30% below 1929. Government spending boosted sales, but the prime cause for the truck makers' burst of speed was the spark plug of general business recovery...
...horse, a veteran of the French turf. To keep him going all these years his trainers had doped him consistently, more & more. His system had become slowly tolerant and partially immune to huge hypodermic shots of dope which would have killed another horse. When the old plug gave out at last he was bought by an unsuspecting butcher with the usual gold horse's head over his door and the usual polite euphemism on his sign "BOUCHERIE HIPPOPHAGIQUE...
...wiles of her no-good husband. As butler and first man, Lee Tracy and Roscoe Kearns are uproariously ridiculous puzzling over a text on the duties of a butler, setting a table, and insulting guests. To preserve the honor and wealth of the household, Kearns takes on a strong plug-ugly backed by the nefarious husband, and finally manages to clout him into a somnabulistic state when the other fighter was not looking. Except for occasional lapses, "Two Fisted" is uniformly funny, with crackling dialogue, and good slapstick. Should one like an impossible, ridiculous bit of fluff, this...
...decided it was a pleasant way to live. He joined the Saranac Lake team in 1923. Dover, in the Eastern Shore League, bought him and got rich by selling him to Portland, Ore. for $15,000. From Portland, Cochrane went to the Athletics. Experts generally considered him the spark plug of the team with which Connie Mack won the pennant three times...
...suggestion by a Washington dopester, a statement by a Massachusetts politician, a radio plug by Walter Winchell and suddenly, two winters ago, it almost seemed as if the Republicans had their Presidential candidate for 1936 (TIME...