Word: strip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hero was a one-toothed, big-eared urchin. He thought it would be a good idea for the World to run his cartoons in color. The World thought so too. The urchin of Hogan's Alley appeared in a yellow nightgown. Thus was born the first colored comic strip...
Died. Richard F. Outcault, 65, famed comic supplement artist (Buster Brown), who drew Hogan's Alley, the first full-page colored comic strip ever published (New York World, 1895); after a long illness; in Flushing...
Steel. Republic Iron & Steel Co. (Youngstown, Ohio) approved consolidation with the smaller Steel & Tubes, Inc., (Cleveland, Ohio), for these reasons: Republic can furnish Steel & Tubes with strip steel and pipe, developing its coal and ore reserves, bringing plant operation near capacity. Assets of the two companies total about $200,000,000. Steel & Tubes, Inc., rose from the business of the Wick family of Youngstown and Cleveland. An astute, enterprising Wick is Myron A., now President of Steel & Tubes...
...rail was buried under two feet of water. "I was sleeping soundly at the time, but awoke suddenly to find myself lying jammed up against a bureau across the room from my bunk. The reason for this rude awakening was that I had been thrown clear over the canvas strip attached along the bed to prevent just such an accident. . . . "The slant of the boat was so great that the electric refrigerator refused to work and we were obliged to salt down the meat in order to keep it from spoiling." She told about two wire-haired fox terriers...
...building gaped with a great jagged hole. As the white clad stretcher bearers rushed within, a crowd of ambulance chasers gathered speculatively upon the pavement. Perhaps they would see the great V. G. Menzhinsky, Chief of the "Cheka," carried forth, maimed and bleeding upon a strip of canvas stretched between two poles...