Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lugged out of the hotel before they were questioning the first of hundreds of underworld characters. The two killers had dropped their pistols on the way out; one was a .32 Smith & Wesson, the other a .38 Colt which originally had been sold in the Middle West in the 1930s. That was all anybody knew. The police were intensely curious as to why Al's bodyguard, one Anthony Coppola, was in a drugstore across the street when Al was ventilated. Anthony was just doing what his kind always does; he was having a cup of coffee...
...countrymen, he served a tough apprenticeship as a Communist underground agent, using false names and passports, surfacing occasionally in Vienna, Istanbul, Paris. In Zagreb he mostly posed and lived as a wealthy engineer. He went frequently to Moscow and was not always sure, during the purge frenzy of the 1930s, that he would come back alive. But the danger of being knifed by his comrades, like the danger of being picked up by the police, was all in the revolutionary day's work...
...serious, sometimes forbidding style, Sibelius said: "Other composers may manufacture cocktails of every color; I offer the public pure water." But as he went on his own lonely way, he took huge, enthusiastic audiences with him: no serious composer was more popular with U.S. and British audiences in the 1930s; no contemporary composer has a more secure place in the current symphonic repertory...
Description: He is pockmarked, toothbrush-mustached, wealthy, aristocratic, weak-willed, easily swayed. She is small, slight, bright-eyed, wealthy, aristocratic, intellectual, intense but unstable. Both are products of the 1930s...
...Concrete. Ever since the mid-1930s a few big, weather-wise companies have had prophets for profit on their staffs. As early as 1937, San Francisco's Pacific Gas & Electric hired Meteorologist Charles Pennypacker Smith to forecast temperatures in northern California, where a 1° drop can change gas demand by 40 million cu. ft. But the real boom in private weathermen came after World War II, when a flood of new meteorologists and new techniques from the armed forces became available to industry. Now, at fees ranging from $25 for a short-range forecast...