Word: aves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oklahoma's report is fantastic. Not even sleep experimenters at the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research in Pittsburgh have tried bank vaults. Mr. Mellon's comfortable bed in Washington is at his commodious fifth floor apartment, 1785 Massachusetts Ave...
...Commerce Commission building in Washington normally seats 200 spectators. Last week, however, 500 rail executives, lawyers, traffic experts, clerks, shippers, statisticians and newshawks jostled and crowded their way into this chamber to witness the opening of the biggest railroad rate case in a decade. The thermometer outside on Pennsylvania Ave. stood at 98°. Everyone was in his shirtsleeves and a frank sweat. The mahogany paint melted from the metal chairs, stained many a pair of linen trousers. On the dais which runs the width of the room sat I. C. Commissioner Balthasar Henry Meyer, presiding, flanked by Commissioners Ernest...
...From the salutation of Roman gladiators on entering the arena-Ave, Imperator, morituri te salutamiis...
Several days later James C. Hall, president of the Master Guides of America, was crying up trade, as is his wont, on Washington's Pennsylvania Ave. before the White House. He spotted tourists' cars by their out-of-town licenses and hailed them with some appropriate local epithet. "Hey, Cracker!" he would call to Georgians. Tourists from Illinois were greeted with "Hey, Capone!'' and from North Carolina, "Hey, Tar Heel!" When Guide Hall saw a big car with a Mississippi tag rolling toward him, he sung out the state cry: "Hey, Bilbo...
...John Davison Rockefeller was elected "Knight of the Kingdom of God" for his "distinguished service to humanity," by Euclid Ave. Baptist Church, Cleveland, on the 100th anniversary of the Cleveland Baptist Association fortnight...