Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington friends Mr. & Mrs. James F. Curtis (no kin to the Vice President). Fortnight ago he arrived at their low, shrub-bowered home behind its stone wall. His cold got no better. It went into his chest. Early last week doctors were called in, and put the Speaker into bed as a pneumonia patient. The pneumonia was dread Type...
...Reno, Nev., Mrs. Pearl Marconi, Indian squaw, spent a night in tippling, presented her papoose to a friendly Negress, went to city jail, demanded a bed to sleep...
...Kenosha, Wis., Floyd J. Meyers, 24, unemployed for 18 months, went to bed with his brother Milton. Both fell to sleep. Soon, Milton Meyers was awakened by a shot, found Floyd Meyers dead beside him with gun in hand. Coroner's opinion: that Floyd Meyers killed himself in his sleep...
...Fleet had just broken up after battle practice in the Caribbean. On the Atlantic and Pacific, ships swung round, raced for Nicaragua. The hospital ship Relief was off the west coast of Mexico, bound for San Diego. Knowing that every bed would be needed, convalescent sailors went over the side in lifeboats, were transferred to cruisers and destroyers while the Relief plowed south to Corinto...
...Holland Corp. might be dissolved. Six years ago the capitalist's and the corporation's names were news enough to set residents of Hyde County, N. C. agog. The capitalist poured millions into the company; the company set up huge pumping stations which drained the marshy old bed of Lake Matamuskeet for a mammoth "factory-farming" project. Wheat and soybeans were planted in great batches. First year it rained, flooding New Holland. Second year New Holland was a success. Third year brought a new failure. So it went. Last week Mr. Heckscher's agent exclaimed...