Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pity Limit. Near Zwingle, Iowa, after his truck started to burn, Norman Fulmer hitched a ride to the firehouse and asked for help, was told that firemen could not work beyond the town's boundaries, hitched back to the truck, got back in, drove the fire to fire headquarters for treatment...
...organizations he did not like (TIME, April 23); of a heart attack; in Clarksburg. Publisher Highland battled daylight-saving time, a sewage-disposal project, improvement of schools and playgrounds, radio (by refusing to print even paid program listings), television (by thundering that a proposed coaxial cable could annihilate children, burn homes), kept virtually all Republican news out of the Democratic Exponent, all Democratic news out of the Republican Telegram, and politics of any brand out of the non-partisan Sunday Exponent-Telegram...
...Brattle can never guarantee. The third problem, nitrate vs. safety film, is one which affects some of the older American pictures, lke W. C. Fields movies, as well as a great many foreign films, like "The Blue Angel." According to Massachusetts law, only "safety" film, which does not burn, may be played in commercial theatres, and most of the old movies are on nitrate stock, with few producers who are willing to meet the cost of transferring them to safety stock...
...Philharmonic-Symphony (1928-36), at Salzburg, at Bayreuth and the NBC Symphony Orchestra (1937-54). Few could define exactly how the little tyrant worked his magic with them. As he hoarsely, ardently sang along with the orchestra, or exhorted, bullied and implored, he could make performers redden with shame, burn with rage, or soften with sympathy for him. And with uncanny and unerring instinct, he knew which would wring a surpassing performance from each of them. Over the years, he played Svengali to hundreds of Trilbys. After listening to a recording of her singing in Toscanini's 1947 broadcast...
...ones on their own. Just as roads have switched over 90% from steam to diesel power, so they are now looking for ways to improve on the economical diesel itself. The Union Pacific was the first U.S. road to put to use a giant gas-turbine locomotive that burns a cheap grade of fuel oil, and can haul maximum-length freights (120 cars) at 65 m.p.h. Next year the Union Pacific will try out a newer model, which it hopes will burn an even cheaper fuel-powdered coal. Such roads as the Denver & Rio Grande Western are looking even farther...