Word: dis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gone to Earth. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Jeniel Reesse gossiped over her back fence with three neighbors, suddenly dis appeared. Firemen came and extricated her from a forgotten excavation twelve feet deep. Mrs. Reesse's weight...
...cars and trucks, Chevrolet estimated that the well-heeled U.S. civilian will have $100,000,000,000 in savings. All this looked too good to be true, even to Chevie's top-optimist, Sales Manager William E. Holler. Said he: "It is perhaps wise to dis count somewhat the conclusions which the figures appear to warrant...
Last week a new development was re ported which may solve the industry's labor problem and make beet-growing selfsupporting: scientists had learned how to get single beet seeds. The American Society of Sugar Beet Technologists' was jubilant. Thanks to the seed-splitting dis covery, beet growing would be largely mechanized in 1944. The beet-sugar pro duction quota had been upped 50%. One big beet man exulted: "The beet-sugar industry will soon compete with sugar cane - without coolie labor!" The man who split the beet seed is Roy Bainer, an agriculture teacher at the University...
This week, just three days after Baruch submitted his report, Jimmy Byrnes dis closed that both jobs had been filled, by Executive order. Ex-Cotton King Will Clayton, 64, of Houston, resigned as Man Friday to Jesse Jones, became Sur plus Property Administrator...
...well exemplified by a letter (from a U.S. Army officer in Sicily to his New Orleans parents) which Bob Hope has put into a forthcoming book (7 Never Left Home). Wrote the soldier: "We were almost sure Frances Langford had not come, and there were many dis appointed people around. And all of a sudden Bob said: 'Here's Frances Lang-ford.' There was a din you would not be lieve. She was stunningly dressed, though simply. It was good to see a clean, neat American girl who spoke our language and thought like...