Word: caps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Duel. In La Porte, Ind., Joseph E. Machinski, 27, and Anthony S. Magglio, 25, who had terrorized innocent café patrons, were arrested and fined $1 apiece (plus costs) for blazing away at each other with their cap pistols...
...earliest differences with F.D.R. was over U.S. recognition of Russia-"a regime which refuses to acknowledge the sanctity of international obligations." When Russia walked into Poland in 1939, Garner took an I-told-you-so attitude. He said to the President: "You haven't much choice, Cap'n. Either Hitler or Stalin would conquer the world. Hitler by force, and Stalin by chicanery, corruption, treachery and undermining...
...winter activities slated for today will have to take on a distinctly indoor flavor, for the only ice in the Waban province will be that which customarily dilutes the contents of tall glasses. Come spring or high water, however, Wellesleyites plan to cap their weekend tonight with three Snow Balls (dances to those who refuse to stoop to the level of such semantics), and the crowning of a King of the Carnival...
Seniors graduating in June will find a seller's market for their talents, according to a recent survey conducted by the Northwestern Life Insurance Company. With figures culled from 34 universities, the statistics show that a college graduate can shed his cap and gown and step into a job at twice the salary that his Class of 1939 schoolmate could expect...
This week, the cap started coming off the biggest item in the average family's budget: food (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In the livestock market, hog prices this week dropped $2 to $22.50 a hundredweight, lowest in a year. Consumers waited for cheaper pork. The sympathetic break in hides, fats and oils, and cotton suggested possible future reductions in the prices of shirts, shoes and soap...