Word: blues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, a brilliant blue neon sign and the suspenseful whirr of roulette wheels heralded the opening of San Marino's casino, temporarily quartered in the Kursaal, the republic's one concert hall. There was a quiet champagne party for 300 local officials and well-heeled visitors. Three dozen croupiers (imported from Italy) smoothly took charge of the casino's five roulette and two baccarat tables...
...Blue Neon Sign. The Communist-Socialist coalition, which has ruled San Marino since 1945, has kept the voters happy and free of worry about Satan by devoting one-third of its budget to WPA-style public works. This year, with its credit exhausted and the budget at a record 530 million lire ($923,500), the government desperately needed money to meet a new 200 million lire deficit...
...Elizabeth Taylor is a great beauty. She is a perfect type of the Black Irish. She has heavy black hair and brows that are also black and thick, but not a whit too thick to frame her large, luxuriantly lashed blue eyes, which darken into violet in the least shadow. Her complexion has been described by an ecstatic publicity man as "a bowl of cream with a rose floating in it." Cameramen have paid her Hollywood's ultimate compliment to beauty: "She doesn't have a bad angle...
...Soft Blue Walls. Between lectures and educational movies, wide-eyed mothers & fathers stared at the refurbished classrooms with their soft blue walls and off-white ceilings, newly varnished floors, took in the fluorescent fixtures, sleekly comfortable seats and desks. Comparing them with the kerosene-lit, bench-lined rooms still familiar in Arkansas' rural areas, they asked: "Why can't we have this all the time?" and "How much does it cost...
...Blue & White Chips. What happened to everybody this summer was a sudden exodus of TV advertisers, plus an unexpected slump in the sales of receiving sets. Explained Charles G. Mortimer Jr., vice president of General Foods Corp.: "There's one big difference between radio's early days and television's: in radio you had a chance to get in the game [for a] stack of white chips-in television, for national advertisers like ourselves, it takes several stacks of blues to find out whether you've got a pair of deuces or a full house. This...