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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a sumptuous luncheon the new rulers of Louisiana were glad to take Franklin Roosevelt to Bonnet Carre spillway which the Government built to save New Orleans from floods. Finally they put him aboard the destroyer Moffett and waved happily at him and Son Elliott as they disappeared downstream. Two days later the President joined his yacht Potomac at sea, proceeded to Port Aransas near Corpus Christi, and set out to make friends with tarpon...
Morgan Library. The Italianate white marble building that the elder J.P. Morgan built to house his treasures became a public trust in 1924. Polite persistence by any visitor will win a free pass from Custodian Belle da Costa Greene to see. besides the books, numerous paintings, prints and drawings that can still hold their own with any of the great U. S. collections, despite numerous sales and gifts to other museums...
Fanchon was the creative brains of the outfit. She built her whole show around some novel production number, blending costumes and tunes to whatever the girls were doing. They came out on bicycles, skates and skis. They wore bunny costumes, appeared disguised as flowers, birds or animals. Fanchon & Marco, Inc. snowballed until theatres which had bought franchises from them became bankrupt and in order to keep units out they had to become theatre operators. Fanchon & Marco shrank from 52 units a year to two units a month...
Believed to be the most powerful medical tool ever built, the machine was given to the clinic by the Godfrey M. Hyams Trust, was constructed and recently set up by research scientists of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. So great is the output of radiation that only one-half its rated current capacity is being used...
Playing steadily and retrieving everything with dogged determination, Maish built up a lead of 11-2 in the final set. Here the fickle fortune of Pong turned in favor of Levin, whose wicked drives started clipping the edges of the table in unreturnable fashion. The final score...