Word: cleans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old) Lux Radio Theater this week celebrated its 15th anniversary. The oldest and most popular drama show on the drama-heavy air. Lux Theater is billed as being "synonymous with all the greatness and glamour of Hollywood." Producer-Host William Keighley (rhymes with Seeley) calls it "good, solid, clean entertainment" in which "nothing is ever used that might offend...
...this continued Nazi sympathy is squarely the AMG's fault. When the military government took over, it vigorously began to clean out Nazis from public office, and tried installing people who were both anti-Nazi and anti-socialist. They ran out of these pretty quickly. Rather than threw any weight behind the reasonably left-wing Social Democratic party, which included some of Hitler's strongest opposition, the AMG started putting back Nazis. Plants were returned to their wartime directors in a "move to promote a free enterprise economy...
...real hero of the conference, holding court in the Computation Laboratory up the street, was a machine: the Mark III Computer, built by Harvard for the Navy at a cost of $500,000. From the front, the Mark III looks like a giant radio panel, with a clean, serene dignity. But behind the panel hides a nightmare of pulsing, twitching, flashing complexity. Thousands of metal parts, big & little, all polished like costume jewelry, compete in frenetic activity. They hum and clack and chirp and roar like a hive of mechanical insects. Among them glow the filaments of 4,500 vacuum...
...notes could not be used in commercial transactions, were chiefly useful to tourists who could take ?5 into Britain.) The notes, which had been selling at $2.90 before devaluation, were down to $2.60 to $2.70. However, the price gap was now so small that bankers thought Britain could clean up the supply of notes, if it wished, by removing the bars on taking them into Britain...
...building were made as small as practically possible, but efficient designing and placing of the modern furniture has made use of all available floor space, and the result is living quarters as comfortable as older, larger ones, and which are more convenient and easier to to clean...