Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mexican silver production is strictly regulated by the government, which imposes a 15% tax on exports to support the value of silver in the Manhattan free market.* For more than a year Mexican treasury officials had suspected a big leak in silver shipments. Despite controls, there always seemed to be enough high-grade Mexican silver in Manhattan to cause prices to fluctuate between 70 and 77.5 cents an ounce. Earlier this year, Beteta put some of his best investigators on the problem...
...veteran jazz bandleaders unburdened themselves on bebop. Sniffed schmalzy Guy Lombardo: "It's laid a big egg. As a matter of fact, it's nothing. I don't even know what they're doing, do you?" Snapped Swingman Tommy Dorsey: "I don't like bebop, and I admit it. I don't know anything about it, and I don't like the look of the people that...
...usual, the crowd stamped first into the "25 Dollar Room" to grab up the bargains-small pictures signed by such big-name summer residents as Reginald Marsh, Clay Bartlett and John Koch. Summertime Vermonter Paul Sample had forsaken landscapes to paint a dingy backstage ballet scene; John Taylor Arms sent a sheaf of his architectural etchings. But such relatively individualistic efforts were exceptions to the show as a whole...
...left England to Cromwell's Roundheads, returned to Antwerp. He had hopes of becoming Rubens' successor in the field of mythological and religious painting, but within three years he died. Had he lived longer, the crackerjack art student, playboy and plaything of society might have known disappointment ; big things were not in his line...
...patient through a hole three inches wide, bored through the 50-inch lead-shielded wall. Physicist Dr. John S. Laughlin grasped a knob on a black panel and set it at 25 million volts. He set another knob at 100. Then, on a signal from Harvey, Laughlin pushed a big green button...