Word: crews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West presented a particularly stiff problem to Stone. Since the depression which had knocked the town's cigar manufacturing industry flat, most of the inhabitants were on relief and barely subsisted. The once thronging naval and military posts had dwindled down to a skeleton crew of eleven...
...Committee, Keppel is President of the Student Council, Secretary of Phillips Brooks House and Chairman of the Eliot House Committee. Hutter is captain of Harvard's first major swimming team. Barnes is chairman of the Leverett House Committee and President of the Glee Club. Brooks is on the Jayvee crew and the Ski team...
Farmer Simon, who loves his Spotty, set to digging for her. When he found that the hole twisted & turned, then ducked into a limestone crevasse, he enlisted the help of eleven friends. For 260½ hours Emmet Simon and his crew worked in shifts like mine rescuers. They blasted and dug, encouraged during the first ten days by feeble, subterranean barking. By night bonfires lit their labor; by day they gulped neighbors' sandwiches and coffee. When they had used their no sticks of dynamite, they blasted with loose black powder. On the eleventh day, just after lunch, a cheer...
...Boland & Charles Ruggles and the Marx Brothers, last year in Topper Director McLeod tried his hand at making a comedienne out of Glamor Girl Constance Bennett, who came to him with a reputation for temperament. Said Director McLeod: ''We've got a good cast, a swell crew and a good story. If anybody gets out of line, it will be you." Actress Bennett: "What do you do about people who get out of line?" Director McLeod: "I give 'em a good swift kick right where they need it." Topper, which turned out to be as funny...
With six passengers and crew of three, T. W. A.'s 14-seat, twin-motor, Douglas DC 2 took off at 6:30 one evening from San Francisco to Winslow, Ariz. It turned south to Los Angeles when it encountered the rains that later washed out over 5,500 homes, 200 lives (see p. 16). On course and on time the big 18,560-lb. ship droned over Fresno, rose to 10,000 ft. to top rugged Tehachapi Mts. Ice began forming on the plane's wings. So about 8:30 p. m. Pilot John Dunbar Graves...