Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They estimated they would need $2,000. They got $675-revenue from advance subscriptions taken by 135 sanguine friends and acquaintances. Most of the sum was invested in Jacinto Bena-vente's Bonds of Interest, a dismal failure. With the residue the Guildsmen painted new scenery on the back of the old and gave St. John Ervine's John Ferguson. This time their success was tumultuous. The play ran for 156 performances, then toured. Last fortnight the Guildsmen celebrated a prosperous tenth anniversary. In Manhattan was a subscription list of 32,000, the Guild's own handsome...
...remedy that fault Croydon officials are considering putting a paved strip all around the field, as at the Rotterdam field. Croydon has two steel and concrete hangars, providing 90,000 sq. ft. of floor space. Each hangar has overhead cranes to move planes and motors. Back of the hangars are workshops, storerooms. Croydon's administration building is a large two-story affair with a roomy control tower rising above one end. It contains waiting room, telegraph desks, book shop, rest rooms, quarters for police, immigration, customs, airline and air administration officials. From the passenger's viewpoint Croydon, like...
...patrol wagon growled up West 18th Street, Manhattan, last week and stopped back of St. Francis Xavier's parochial school. Pupils crowded to the windows and watched patrolmen enter the semi-basement of No. 46, a brownstone house. Soon appeared a dozen agitated women. Some carried infants. Then six more women with strained, angry faces walked out of the door. Policemen with wastepaper baskets full of surgical instruments, rubber devices and index cards in their arms, herded the six women into the patrol wagon. The wagon smelled horribly. The women sat down on its benches. Policemen posted themselves...
...abdomen several thousand ripe eggs. Swimming over it, the male fertilizes the eggs. Then both lose interest in their family, for the founding of which they have traveled miles up the river. Covering the eggs with sand both male and female go off and die. Some fortunate few struggle back to the ocean to grow sleek and begin the cycle over again next year.* Many an Alaskan salmon, however, is leaping this April-May not into a waterfall but into round tin cans, neatly sealed and labeled. These round cans, each of them containing one pound of salmon flesh...
...Brooklyn, one Sylvester Walker, Negro, gave to Rose Redy, his lady-friend, a de luxe artificial left leg ($180, tinted to match her complexion). Attentions of other men to rehabilitated Rose inflamed his jealousy, so last week Sylvester Walker stormed into her home, demanded back his (her) leg. She called police, kept...