Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...previous editions, the women have been listed in a special section. Referring to the new arrangement which he instituted, David W. Bailey, publication agent, said...
...Diamond Glenn" now has 300 employes, figures his staff of engineers, geologists, drillers, roughnecks, are the best in the business. Month ago he announced his tenth discovery. Out on Bailey's Prairie, in Brazoria County, his latest gusher came in. One of the deepest low-gravity oil producers on the Coast, it was the centre of a 10,000-acre tract, all under McCarthy lease. It looked as though the Wildcat King had joined the semi-majors...
...lectures are: October 29, "The New Comets," by Dana K. Bailey; November 1, "Mystery of the Solar Corona," by Donald H. Menzel, associate professor of Astronomy; November 6, "In Between the Stars," by Bart J. Bok, assistant professor of Astronomy; and November 8, "Peculiar Variable Stars," by Dr. Luigi Jacchia...
Died. Sir Abe Bailey, 75, hearty South African financier, sportsman, politician; in Cape Town. Lured to the Transvaal by gold, this "world's greatest gambler" speculated his way in & out of many a fortune, helped to bring about the union of South Africa. He was decorated for his part in the Boer War, was knighted in 1911. In 1937 Cape Town, believing Sir Abe dead after his leg had been amputated, dropped its flags to half-mast. Next year the doughty oldster lost his other leg, forestalled half-mastery by issuing a bulletin announcing that he was doing fine...
...into the South American trade (U. S. exports up 59% over last year), for the Grace Line and the American Republics Line had that continent sewed up. But in the U. S. ocean shipping business, the Government taketh away, but also giveth. Fortnight ago Franklin Roosevelt signed the Bailey-Bland bill, authorizing the Maritime Commission to absorb all or part of the deficits of vessels that have been forced by the Neutrality Act to abandon old routes, ply new ones...