Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What made this mile-a-minute pace fairly easy was a 15% increase in locomotive efficiency and 15 to 30% reductions in train weight. Head end of the Century on its steam haul was a 96-foot, futuristically jacketed Hudson-type engine. Pulling the Broadway over its more rugged mileage was a Pacific-type locomotive, sheathed like the Century's, just as efficiently geared...
...headliner Baritone Harry Lillis ("Bing") Crosby, observed, after a bazooka solo by Bob Burns, that the rendition had been "as dirty as the inside of a Russian horse doctor's valise." In somewhat the same free-style spirit, last week Kraft Announcer Ken Carpenter ad libbed at the end of the program during which Mr. Crosby had played Beautiful Ohio on a saw, that "Cuddle Up a Little Closer is from The Three Twins and Beautiful Ohio from hunger...
...which is devoted to the care of retired circus performers), forced to wear costumes depicting the life of a Rockefeller from babyhood to old age. Announcer Tex O'Rourke, master of ceremonies, supplied a running commentary: "He worked hard and long in the Texas oilfields until, at the end of one week, he rose to vice president. After attaining this position, he took a year's vacation...
From his 24-year exile in Switzerland, famed novelist playwright, pacifist Romain Rolland (Jean-Christophe, Soul Enchanted), 72, returned to his native France to end his days, "a man broken in heart, body and spirit...
...obtained a 20-ft. length of iron pipe, about six inches in diameter, which he intended to use as a spectroscope tube. There were cobwebs in the pipe which had to be cleaned out. Dr. Wood obtained a cat, put the cat in the pipe, closed up that end by laying a board against it. The cat saw light at the opposite end, crawled through the tube and emerged, having cleaned out the cobwebs...