Word: carles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...building or expansion of twelve naval bases, ten in the Pacific, two in the Atlantic. The lot would cost only $51,500,000 (to be appropriated later), but the forward sweep of the national defense program was momentarily halted by one little phrase: "And Guam, $5,000,000." Chairman Carl Vinson of the Naval Affairs Committee was rudely surprised to find that this was a fighting phrase. Debate over it raged hot and angrily for three days. During the fight, the Congress and the country clarified some of their ideas on national defense...
Such actual plant traps as these have probably inspired the tall tales told by imaginative travelers about others much bigger and much more dreadful. Miss Prior, who dismisses them all as fables, quotes a Dr. Carl Liche who claimed to have seen a woman sacrificed, with horrid ceremony, to a "man-eating tree" in Madagascar. A sojourner in Brazil said he saw a tree which attracted monkeys by means of a peculiar odor, hemmed them in a prison of leaves, dropped their bare bones after three days. Centuries ago a very tall tale popped up about a gigantic Death Flower...
...telephoto camera, could remember having seen some such score. On Tuesday a phone call was put through to the Library of Congress in Washington. Music Librarian Harold Spivacke burrowed all day, late at night emerged in dusty triumph with a lithograph of the score (purchased for the Library by Carl Engel in 1922). On Wednesday photostat copies were hurriedly made and airmailed to Mr. Toscanini. On Thursday NBC copyists frantically scribbled scripts for the 105 men in the NBC orchestra. On Friday they rushed through a single rehearsal. On Saturday they proudly played it for the world to hear. After...
...first prize of $100, a second prize of $50, six presentation copies of Carl Van Doren's "Benjamin Franklin," and three copies of "Builders of the Bay Colony" by Samuel E. Morrison, Professor of History, will be awarded to the students who pass with greatest distinction the second prize examination in American History to be given on April 15 at 2 o'clock in Harvard Hall...
Oscar Hubbard (Carl Benton Reid) is mean, tightlipped, greedy; his brother Ben (Charles Dingle) shrewder, more capable, more sardonic; their sister Regina (Tallulah Bankhead) grandly and coldly ambitious for wealth, power, position. The trio's business schemes require the financial help of Regina's dying husband; and, sick of their vulpine methods, he refuses it. Out of this deadlock springs powerful drama of intramural conspiring and double-crossing, theft and virtual murder...