Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announced that he would live up to his end of his bargain. Backed by Madison Square Garden Corp., which publicized the fight, and printed tickets for it, he went into training for a month at Speculator, N. Y., announced that he was confident of winning by a knockout. Only detail in all this preparation that admitted that neither Schmeling nor the Garden actually expected the fight to take place was that on the tickets, of which 43 were sold as curios, Schmeling's name was misspelled with...
Organizer Frankensteen's own account of the battle, as given in detail to the Communist Daily Worker substantially agreed with the accounts of newshawks and clergymen. Excerpts...
...1890s reporter Ralph Delahaye Paine, famed young Yale rowing man breaking into journalism on the Philadelphia Press, was inspired to perpetrate a monumental hoax. With rich detail he told readers about one Pierre Grantaire who made a good living by raising and selling spiders for the spurious cobwebbing of wine bottles. After visiting the "spider farm" on Lancaster Pike outside Philadelphia, Reporter Paine said that 4,000 spiders of the species Nephila plumipes (who spun the "finest webs") were busy working for M. Grantaire, that he shipped them to customers in "little paper boxes, so many dozen in each crate...
...father, he struck out for himself, forming his own commission house with a partner named Maurice B. Clark. That summer the first oil well was drilled in Titusville, Pa., but young Rockefeller was still engrossed in produce. Thanks largely to his prodigious capacity for work, his infinite capacity for detail, the firm did a $450,000 business the first year. Like most of the men who were to rule the U. S. in the coming years of industrialization, young Rockefeller was far too busy to go to war in 1861. And out of the commission house profits the partners...
...loss of the Navy dirigible Macon off Point Sur in 1935. Writing with the care and control of Stephen Crane's classic chronicle of disaster, The Open Boat, Lieut. Campbell tells a memorable tale. Without a wasted word, readers are made vividly aware of every disciplined detail of the Macon's last flight, from the rising siren to the final, gentle crash on the surface of the sea and the pyre of gasoline flames...