Word: comee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From within a pub at Weymouth (England) after hours, a passing constable one night last week heard a cheerio voice propose: "Come on, let's have one for the road." His duty was clear. He routed out the publican, haled him before a magistrate. But the laugh was on the constable. The voice from within was no after-closing tosspot's, it was Lord Haw-Haw of Zeesen, No. 1 Nazi propagandist to Britons, tossing off a Briticism over short-wave radio...
...weekly broadcasts in Radio City's scientifically sound-deadened Studio 8-H pushes an audience of dowagers, politicians and musical who's who that tops the Metropolitan's opening nighters for mink and boiled shirts. Toscaniniacs come from far & wide. From Indianapolis...
...York City's North Beach airport. Jack Zimmerman plunked the DC-3 down short, turned right and taxied up to the administration building where swart Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and a knot of city bigwigs waited in a crowd of 2,000 to see the first scheduled airline flight come in to New York City's new $40,000,000 terminal. Said Jack Zimmerman to the Mayor of New York, "This is a swell airport...
...York tin price approximately 29% above London. In spite of the ore handicap, Phelps Dodge can more than break even with tin at about 46?, which is more than 10? higher than the British break-even point. This should keep Phelps Dodge in the tin business even come peace. American Metal has the same economic problem. Meantime in Argentina, National Lead Co., St. Joseph Lead Co., and Patino are jointly working and smelting deposits similar to Bolivia...
...Crimson defense operated smoothly in the second period and veteran goalie Vint Freedley again and again warded off St. Nicks Attacks. As much as any other member of the team, Freedley, with his natural ability of knowing when to come out from the cage, deserved credit for Hodder's initial success...