Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Faced with its impressive omnibus, a joint Congressional committee last year soon fell to squabbling, finally split apart to work on it separately. The House Committee divided the bill into four sections, passed two last August. The Senate bill, introduced by Joe Robinson last June, was rewritten by South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes and reintroduced in January, finally emerged from committee last month. Last week, the Senate settled down to work on it with a will...
...elevator to the top of Albuquerque's eight-story First National Bank Building. Although their hosts had not planned it, they were educated in pain as well as pleasure: as they watched Albuquerque's firemen climb a building, a rope broke. Firemen Frank Parenti and George Tafoya fell 40 feet, were seriously injured. The children agreed to spend part of the money they had been saving for playground equipment to send flowers to the firemen...
...code of Southern chivalry, bit her lips to make them kissable, patted her cheeks with a hairbrush to make them scarlet, the audience glanced toward Producer Selznick to see how he liked these things that smacked of Gone With the Wind. If he let fall any comments, they fell in private...
...from two and one-half to three times the normal weekly turnover. Best sellers were the highest-priced models. Ford dealers sold an estimated 57,000 units, General Motors 65,000, Chrysler 30,000. Last week WPA announced that for the first time in four months Detroit relief rolls fell. Said Ford Sales Manager John Raymond Davis, who conceived the used car drive: "From 30% to 60% of the transactions made by our dealers were for cash. This is a healthy situation. . . . In other words, there was no straining of credit to get these satisfactory results...
...DEAD-John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). An English couple, just returned from South Africa with a group of friends, are brutally murdered, a few days apart and in different parts of England. Scotland Yard suspects all members of their party, all of whom suspect each other. Genial, astute Dr. Fell solves one of his most opaque jobs...