Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bradenton, Fla., March 12 -- The world champion St. Louis Cardinals took a 9 to 6 decision from the Philadelphia Phillies here today, but the Phils had the satisfaction of knocking Jerome "Dizzy" Dean out of the box in the fourth inning...
Year ago U. S. newspicture editors were astonished to receive from Germany what purported to be the photograph of a man flying under his own power by blowing into a box which supposedly actuated rotors strapped to his chest. He wore skis for landing gear, was shown just after the take-off with his friends trotting behind. The picture-as most editors learned too late-was a hoax concocted by the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung for its annual April Fool issue (TIME, April...
...plot of Lowe-McLaglen cinema varies more than its essential pattern: an amiable numbskull outwitted by a smug sophisticate. Cinemaddicts who enjoy listening to the kind of vituperation between Lowe and McLaglen which has remained marketable at the box-office for the past eight years will probably overlook the fact that as detective fiction The Great Hotel Murder is strictly routine...
...topping two preceding raises of 2½% since last July. Traffic is not expanding. And while Jesse Jones might assure the carriers, as he did last week, that his RFC would continue to lend on acceptable security, there is a bottom to even the best road's strong box. Furthermore, Mr. Jones sometimes depresses investors, as he did last week, with peremptory demands that debt-ridden roads reorganize...
...year before. The regular dividend had been paid by drawing upon surplus, now $21.50 a share. President Walter Gifford announced that during the year A. T. & T. had perfected a new telephone which has the bell and other equipment in the telephone itself instead of in a separate box...