Word: barse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile Jews resumed their attempts to enter Palestine illegally. Three miles off the coast, a British minesweeper intercepted the 200-ton schooner Palmach, loaded with 800 refugees and quantities of TNT concealed in soap bars. A British boarding party was met with "a shower of missiles." Before fire hoses and...
When the Nazis ordered the Kulturbund to perform only in secluded synagogues, Steinberg took its best musicians to Palestine, where he and Polish Violinist Bronislaw Hubermann formed the Palestine Symphony Orchestra. Hubermann invited Arturo Toscanini to conduct the first public concert in Tel Aviv. Toscanini listened to a few well...
On one day last week there were 40 strikes going on in New York City. One of them had New Yorkers jittery; it threatened to take a major bite out of their food supplies and to cut off their newspapers, cigarets, soap, candy bars and hundreds of the items they...
Petrillo flew from Chicago to New York to pull out all the stops. Muzak Corp. agreed not to pipe in canned music to silent hotels, A.F.L. electricians pledged themselves not to install jukeboxes. As Petrillo, dressed in two-tone shoes and a cream-colored silk shirt, made the rounds of...
Nor Iron Bars . . . In Doylestown, Pa., Prisoner Robert Henderson broke out of solitary, smashed through a steel mesh grating, broke a closely leaded window, squeezed his 170 lbs. between two iron bars, scaled a 10-ft. fence, escaped over a 32-ft. wall.