Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HEATING BOOM has helped push the gas industry into the nation's sixth biggest business, says American Gas Association President Earl H. Eacker, who predicts that producers will spend $3.5 billion (total industry assets: $13.5 billion) on expansion for natural gas alone over the next four years. By the end of this year, 14 million U.S. households will be heated by gas, with another 1,000,000 new customers coming in each year...
...story of the picture, based on a novel, Men of Iron, by Howard Pyle, concerns a rash child (Actor Curtis) of the 14th century who doesn't know his own father. To find out who he is, the young man takes service as a squire with the kindly Earl of Mackworth (Herbert Marshall), quickly wins distinction with his arms-in the bower of milord's pretty daughter (Actress Leigh) as well as in the joust. In the end, Curtis clears his father's name, puts the crunch on the villain, gets the girl-and saves the state...
Among those scheduled to receive Doctor of Laws degrees at the final public ceremonies of the Bicentennial are Adlai E. Stevenson, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, and Konrad Adenauer, West German Chancellor...
...downhearted. Born the same year that Enrico Caruso died (1921), Mario feels that nature intended him as Caruso's replacement. To underline the idea, he has faithfully followed Caruso's taste in black Homburgs and spats. The legacy was further ex plained by Mario to Columnist Earl Wilson: "God gave me my voice as a gift- and I am only the keeper of the voice...
...College of William and Mary in Virginia, the guests included Chief Justice Earl Warren and his British counterpart, Lord Chief Justice Goddard. Members of the Virginia judiciary were there, as well as such celebrities as Arthur Lehman Goodhart, master of University College, Oxford, and Judge Harold Medina. The notables had come to honor three great jurists: Sir William Blackstone, John Marshall, and George Wythe, who 175 years ago was appointed by William and Mary to the first chair of law in the U.S. But though the tributes to these three were the purpose of the ceremony, the center of attraction...