Word: containers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...silly bulletin if only because the news columns of the World contain the writings of able Charles Michelson, an oldtimer, whom the World sends around the country to see the Nominees, visit the doubtful states and to write, whenever he can, stories that will boost the Brown Derby. His Republican equivalent is found in Carter Field, thoroughly partisan chief of the Herald Tribune's Washington bureau. The Field despatches deal with anything and everything political, except foreign policy, which until lately has usually been handled by Henry Cabot Lodge (grandson), another Near-Pundit, stalking about on errands...
...Border, bitter battlegrounds of national elections, got its first smell of this year's political powder last week. Congressional primaries were held in Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri. Wiseacres tried to foretell the number of Smith and Hoover votes the three states contain by comparing, this way and that, the democratic and republican votes cast. But only one thing of immediate significance occurred. That was in Tennessee, where Finis James Garrett, for 23 years a member of the House, and since 1923 the House's boss Democrat, tried to get himself nominated for the seat in the Senate which...
...black buxom Negresses prostrated themselves, as was fitting, before His Majesty Albert I, King of the Belgians and of Belgian Congo Blackamoors-and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. The white Sovereigns, complacent, were on tour through their Afric domains, which are larger in area than all Western Europe and contain almost as many Blackamoors as does...
Marshall Field & Co. (wholesale) has announced plans for a Merchandise Mart, with space for other merchants, to be erected along the Chicago River and partly in the air rights of the Chicago & North Western Railway. The height will only be some 20 stories, but the mart will contain 4,000,000 sq. ft. (about 92 acres) of floor space. The architects are Graham, Anderson Probst & White. The name of Builder-Architect Ernest Robert Graham assures distinction-distinction dating back to the magnificent Chicago World's Fair, through the unprecedented Flatiron Building in Manhattan, to railroad stations, museums and skyscrapers...
...enzyme-like-ferment-like-nature of the principle has been conclusively established. Final proof must be the production of the same substance from materials which beyond all doubt do not contain virus. And this has been accomplished...