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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Bank Night, Roller Derby is a copyrighted name, the product of an inventive cinema salesman from the West Coast. Leo ("Bromo") Seltzer, 32, worked for Universal Pictures Corp., until five years ago when he staged the first commercial Walkathon in Denver. He promoted 22 more, grossed $2,000,000, retired because he felt that Walkathons were becoming vulgar. He inaugurated the Roller Derby in Chicago last August, held two more in Louisville and Kansas City. Roller Derby teams are selected from the Transcontinental Roller Derby Association, formed by Promoter Seltzer last year to help popularize his new pastime...
...industries are livelier, more ingenious than the glass industry. Two of its most important divisions are bottle glass and flat glass. The bottle division continually wars with the tin-can industry over the packaging of products. Glass-packed coffee marked a glass advance; canned beer was a victory for tin. The flat glass division, having no outside industry to contend with, has spent its time in the improvement of its product. Most important modern development has been safety glass for automobiles. Invisible glass, flexible glass, heat-proof glass and bullet-proof glass have been more spectacular but less substantial inventions...
...glass blocks, has 39 rooms. Because of the building material, no windows are necessary, and in solving the problem of the windowless structure, Owens-Illinois claimed that it had taken a long step forward in making air-conditioning practical. The glass house also contains another important Owens-Illinois product: spun glass, or glass wool, woven into thick mats and used as insulator of heat and sound. It is likely to be a long time before many people live in glass houses, but glass insulation is a much more immediate rabbit in the Owens-Illinois...
Cotton was the only regulated farm product in which a serious surplus still exists. While the carryover had been cut from 13,000,000 bales to 9,000,000 at the start of the crop year, it was still 4,000,000 bales above normal. And cotton sagged last week, distant futures slipping below 10? per Ib. Meantime, elimination of the 4.2? cotton processing tax brought trading in cotton textiles to a halt. Prices were cut but not enough to satisfy buyers, who insisted that quotations must fully reflect the saving in taxes. Tire makers, who have been paying some...
...Golden Gleam appeared in the U. S. in 1932. Neither a fancy cocktail nor a crack train, the Golden Gleam, a product of Mexico, was a double nasturtium, bearing ten petals to the ordinary blossom's five. Alert David Burpee of Philadelphia's W. Atlee Burpee Co. saw here a fine chance-if seized vigorously- to get ahead of his competitors. Sweet-scented but limited to its one glowing color, the Golden Gleam might be produced in various colors if crossbred with common nasturtiums...