Word: batons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final U. S. naturalization papers. Its sponsor was its godfather, gargantuan Standard Oil Co. (N. J.), which has research relationships with Germany's I. G. Farbenindustrie, had a laboratory seat in the development of Buna from German coal gases and limestone. Its first residence will be Baton Rouge, where, Standard announced last week, a plant will be built to turn out Buna beginning late this year (capacity 10,000 Ib. a day), under the management of two subsidiaries-sales-minded Standard of Louisiana, research-minded Standard Oil Development...
Since 1800, the band has also given concerts. In the 18905, when John Philip Sousa headed it, the U. S. Marine Band became one of the best in the world. When Bandmaster Sousa quit to conduct his own celebrated outfit, the Marine Band's baton fell to an Italian named Francesco Fanciulli, who led it for five years. Since then it has had only two conductors, fiddle-playing, German-born William H. Santelmann and jovial, bespectacled, U. S.-born Captain Taylor Branson...
When he had finished, the audience cheered for two minutes. Then he handed his baton to his successor: sharp-nosed William F. Santelmann, son of the man who conducted the marines before Captain Branson...
...Baton Rouge last week, before the 33-story capitol he built, a bold, 14-ft. statue of Huey P. Long was hoisted into place over his grave. Thus fixed in imperishable bronze, the Kingfish stood staring, his expression suffused with a tenderness more than lifelike, over the Old Campus, Baton Rouge, the Mississippi River, and a good part of the State he had dominated. To erect the statue, the recently defeated, Long-machined legislature (which goes out of office next month) appropriated $50,000. A campaign for contributions had brought...
...images of the sun and moon are nearly the same size in the sky, but the distance of both bodies from earth varies slightly, and the size of their apparent disks varies accordingly. April's annular eclipse begins in the Pacific, crosses the southern U.S. -darkening Austin, Houston, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Pensacola, Tallahassee, Savannah, Jacksonville-and ends in the Atlantic (see chart}. Texas' McDonald Observatory, which is 50 miles from the shadow path, will send a party into the path near the Mexican border to study infra-red radiation from the bright ring around the moon...