Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...phenomenon of the British Sunday morning as church bells. Full accounts of the nation's latest divorces, accidents and murders were devoured downstairs by goggle-eyed scullery-maids. Upstairs in her boudoir the lady of the house was feasting on the same spicy journalistic fare, for to the upper crust the paper's selling point was that it presented the week's scandal news in toto and in one lump. Up, up, up climbed circulation. By last week News Of The World had reached the record total of 3,350,000. And the current issue was typical of the paper...
Aluminum is one of the most abundant metals in Earth's crust, yet it can be produced profitably from only one ore, reddish-brown bauxite, and it is produced in the U. S. by only one company, Aluminum Co. of America, which holds U. S. patents on the only profitable process. Aluminum Co. sells aluminum pig to independent fabricators but has its own fabricating subsidiaries to compete with them. Thus although most of the pistons in Ford cars are of Mr. Bohn's Bohnalite some are of Aluminum Co.'s Lynite. Mr. Bohn is not vitally disturbed...
...dessert, "fresh strawberries in season are preferred above all else" with ice cream sundaes closely following. Pies without a top crust and most gelatin desserts are in disfavor as are New England fish and boiled dinners and Boston baked beans. Probably Bostonians take their meals in the dining halls just to get away from those dishes...
From spending billions for battleships while the unemployed live upon a crust...
Fancy Hole. President Carl Ewald Grunsky of the California Academy of Science died last week just before he was to suggest that, if all mankind cooperated, they might dig a hole through the 200 miles of earth's crust and tap tremendous heat and gas imprisoned under 900,000 Ib. pressure per square inch...