Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Joseph M. (for Maurice) Weber, 74, the short, barrel-bellied butt of the old Weber & Fields knockabout comedy team; in Los Angeles. For more than half a century gangling, goat-bearded Lew Fields shook and belabored goat-bearded little Joe Weber for his ignorance and insults, joined him in mangling the English language ("I am delightfullness to meet you"), shared with him the glory and profits of being the most popular low-comedy team in theater history. Products of Manhattan's lower East Side, the two grew up together, formed their own road company at 18. Lew Fields...
...Because Congress' pork-barrel price for domestic silver (71.11? an oz. v. 35⅛? for foreign metal) keeps it out of the industrial market, Manhattan Silver Dealers Handy & Harman had to prorate their customers. Yet Silver Senators last week were after Henry Morgenthau's scalp for trying to repeal the Silver Purchase...
...diminishing supply of teachers. Private school teachers' pay normally averages $1,200 a year; some get as little as $400 and maintenance. To keep themselves staffed, some of the better schools offered as much as $3,000; even so they were scraping the bottom of the barrel. When they hired married men to replace unmarried draftees, they had a housing headache: married men and their families could not live in boys' dormitories...
...With demand for fuel oil for U.S. ships growing and gasoline demand drying up, Southern California oilmen tried pumping gasoline back into depleted oil wells. It costs about 6? a barrel, but may save the gasoline-storage tanks are full...
...afternoon the procession continued: East 65th Street to Washington Square, Washington Square to 65th Street. Mrs. Roosevelt carried her prints, two Chinese lamps, a bowl of glass daisies. The vans disgorged their cargoes: an old cane-bottomed rocker that the President likes, a walnut highboy, a high chair, a barrel with a box of soap chips sticking...