Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...States controlled the tidelands. In 1933, when prospectors applied to the Interior Department for federal leases to tideland oil deposits, Harold Ickes said, "Title to the soil under the ocean within the three-mile limit is in the State of California, and the land may not be appropriated except by authority of the State...
Trio No. 4 in D Major, Op. 70 (Adolf Busch, violin; Hermann Busch, cello; Rudolf Serkin, piano; Columbia, 6 sides). This trio ("The Ghost") is of lesser nobility- except for its fine misterioso slow movement -than his Trio No. 6, Op. 97 ("The Archduke"), but here it is splendidly performed. Recording: excellent...
...found him with a woman, nor the one who has never loved anything but a good time. His nerve going, his job gone, his boys slashing their way out of his dream, the truth clawing down one after another of his defenses, Willy Loman has no prop left except a loyal and loving wife. It is not enough. He can only kill himself...
While A.P. glowered, Eccles testified that Transamerica had agreed to stop buying up banks, except with FRB approval, after 1940-and then had gone right on with "a dangerous and unjustifiable expansion." Not so, claimed Transamerica attorneys. FRB had added restrictions which made it impossible for them to comply with the agreement...
Since Ladd is a company policeman in the days when roadbeds were rough and railroading rougher, Preston winds up on the villains' or losing side. There are some handsomely photographed train wrecks, but except for Frank Faylen's lynx-eyed portrait of a killer, Whispering Smith is a conventional western in every detail. Its only novelty: Actor Ladd, familiar as a sleekly tough urban type, carrying two guns and looking pretty uncomfortable as they flap around his chaps...