Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bozo Damich, the U.M.W.'s International Representative, "there's a saying which goes that the miner will spend $10 a day if he has it, or he can live 100 days on $10 if he has to. If things get hard our men will be buying a barrel of mush and living on it three meals...
...know, after you have looked down a gun barrel for several years, you become impervious to the threat. You finally get to thinking that perhaps the easiest solution is to let the other fellow pull the trigger...
Meantime, Caracas boomed. Attention turned from the old pursuits of the soil to the speculations encouraged by the country's 1,000,000-barrel-a-day oil industry. Caraqueñas feverishly built houses, streets, schools, soda fountains, bars, movies, hotels...
...sing with Melchior because his size dwarfs hers. To dress her own vast proportions as handsomely as possible, Traubel has all her clothes-including her stage costumes-designed by Hollywood's Adrian. In the sewing room of Adrian's chic pastel salon, there is a headless and barrel-chested, size 46, grey muslin model standing majestically between those of Claudette Colbert, size 32, and Norma Shearer, size 32. Adrian's loose-leaf notebook lists the Traubel specifications after those for "Temple, Shirley." They tell a sizable story: "Bust, 51 inches [Shirley's is 34"]; waist...
...doctors do not practice group medicine. Would C.P.S. team up with H.I.P.? C.P.S. did not say. But its elated director, William M. Bowman, saw C.P.S.'s coup as the start of a nationwide system. Said he: "We expect to see this reciprocity arrangement roll like a barrel clear across the country...