Word: duplex
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These dispositions, which could be used two ways, were supplemented by duplex tactics. To the minimal detail, the German troops knew what to do on the offense, what on defense; for in most cases the tasks were identical, though differently applied, the equipment identical, though differently used...
...largest commercial art gallery in the world put on a show last week. The show's opening reception, in a huge duplex suite on uptown Fifth Avenue, drew 5,800 art lovers. But bigger news than the show was the commercial success of the Associated American Artists' Galleries. The attraction at the opening was an exhibition of recent paintings by Thomas Hart Benton. The splash that it made was a demonstration of the fact that able mechanizing methods have, for one group of artists, made art for art's sake a paying business for the first time...
...executives who wish to impress visitors with a clean desk, Manhattan's Duplex Desk Co. designed a flat desk with an extra top which can be drawn over the usual litter at a moment's notice...
...August Butler was sure he'd win. He sold his house, moved into a $90-a-month duplex. Three weeks ago he began checking on what offices, what seat, what committees a Nebraska junior Senator might get. A week before Election Day he predicted his majority within 5,000 votes. Last week Tortoise Butler beat Hare Cochran, settled down to a brief vacation at his only hobbies: hunting, working on his farm, and playing "pitch...
...outlets for Automatic Soap Flakes. Similarly successful, Meet the Missus has attracted a million requests for a card game advertised on the program, and pulls 3,000 letters a week. Reveling in his success with the matrons, young Tommie Bartlett earns $22,000 a year, lives handsomely in a duplex apartment on Lake Shore Drive. A feature of almost every berry, corn and apple festival around Chicago, Bachelor Tommie has so far received 20 proposals of marriage, inherited $5,000 from one mike-struck listener. A little uncertain about the I. Q. of his audience ever since...