Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year's weather was as bad as any since the Dust Bowl days of the '30s. No rain had fallen, to speak of, all summer. But last week, instead of gloom, there was jubilation in the short-grass country. A $12,000,000 federal reclamation project was formally opened, promising an end, at last, to floods and drought for 50,000 acres of prairie farmland...
Perhaps it was the neighborhood it is in. Some of the Hollywood Bowl's best friends were accusing it of settling into a state of lucrative mediocrity. To bring the crowds in, the long-suffering Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra had been doing some strange tricks this season, sometimes with only a single rehearsal. It played an all-Gershwin concert under Paul Whiteman's baton; it struggled through an evening of "Music of the Americas" led by Xavier Cugat (who complained bitterly during, a 1946 rehearsal that the orchestra failed to "pay him any respect"); it accompanied Margaret Truman...
Along with the new material, which he calls simply Poly-T ("There have been too many bum articles called plastic"), Tupper has developed machinery to press it into 25 pastel-shaded houseware items ranging from poker chips (100 for $1.98) to double-walled ice-cube bowls ($4.98). Some of the bowls have close-fitting caps which, upon slight pressure, create a partial vacuum, form an airtight container. All of them can be squeezed to form a spout which disappears when the bowl is set down. A Massachusetts insane asylum found Tupperware an almost ideal replacement for its noisy, easily battered...
...blonde, pleasant-looking girl in a summer print dress studied the bulletin board. For the first time she was seeing her name in print the way she had always wanted: Margaret Truman billed as soloist with Eugene Ormandy and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra...
...walked out of there with $308. Then in Hollywood there was a tour out to see the movie stars' homes, and a big free-drink party by the Los Angeles Teamsters' Joint Council, and a nightclub jaunt to Earl Carroll's place, and the Biltmore Bowl. Some of the boys had to borrow coats and ties from the waiters before they'd let them in to have a look at the goings-on in Earl Carroll...