Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peak at Mongaup Park, known locally as "Last Chance Hill," spotted the burned wreckage of NC 12354, the incinerated remains of Pilot Holbrook. Copilot Barron, Stewardess Huckeby & all four passengers. Airline officials deduced that Pilot Holbrook had turned westward to skirt a storm area. Squeezed down by the thick blanket of clouds above, the plane had torn an Soft. swath through the treetops, crashed to earth in a blaze of flame. One body, flung clear of the wreckage, was found with hands snapped off at the wrist...
...previous years had been hard for young Irving Berlin, born Israel Baline in Molgne, Russia. He was the youngest of eight children. His father was a cantor. First thing he remembers is lying on a blanket on the side of a road while his home and half the village burned to the ground. The family drifted to New York where Father Baline got irregular work certifying meat for kosher butcher shops. He died when "Izzy" was eight. Four sisters went on doing bead work in an East Side basement home. An older brother worked in a sweat shop...
...cost of the venture was close to $500,000. WLW's programs should be picked up by an ordinary set under any conditions within a 2,500-mi. radius, under good conditions anywhere in the world. Other radiocasters and the Federal Radio Commission feared the new giant might "blanket the dial," drowning out less powerful signals by failing to stay within its assigned channel of 700 kilocycles. For months test signals have been broadcast before daybreak while the Commission's investigators watched their frequency testers like hawks. Last month, satisfied that WLW would...
...wearily in his dusty niche high on the silent rafters of Memorial Hall. The strange quiet of early morning is so intense that it pulsates sonorously, and by degrees his tired body seems to be dissolved into the infinite darkness and silence lying round about like a thick, suffocating blanket...
...thinking people grounds for apprehension. An added fifty-five million dollar burden of discouragement saddled to the backs of the American tax-payers is an appalling thing to think about, heralded as it has been by the new bonus expenditures. And it is interesting to note that this blanket tax increase was put through on the same day as the adoption of the Finance Committee amendment to impose a processing tax on cocoanut oil imported from the Phillipines, despite the fact that such a step is a direct violation of the Phillipine Independence Act recently passed...