Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tremendous task for any nation, even for Germany, highly militarized though she is. To be able to carry this change through in a matter of hours if necessary, Chancellor Hitler last week created a "permanent economic general staff" headed by slim, taciturn, 59-year-old War Minister Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg...
...Disney needed a character to replace silent Oswald The Rabbit. From a night of heavy thinking in an upper berth in 1928, Mickey Mouse was born. When the bulging double-feature movement began three years ago to crowd out the Disney shorts, Disney resolved to enter the feature field himself...
Married. Barbara Field, 19, athletic daughter of Capitalist Marshall Field III, great-granddaughter of the founder of the Chicago department store; to Anthony A. Bliss, 24, grandson of the late Cornelius N. Bliss, William McKinley's Secretary of the Interior; in Manhattan...
...Telephone & Telegraph common stocks. I. T. & T. financing soon got too big for the firm to handle and went to J. P. Morgan & Co., but E. B. Smith enjoyed the reflected glory and a fat slice of every I. T. & T. deal. Some of its other flotations like Roosevelt Field, Inc. and R. Hoe & Co. added nothing to its name, but E. B. Smith managed to avoid the subsequent attention lavished by the Senate Banking & Currency Committee on most of its peers...
...first eleven months of 1937, U. S. publishers brought out 9,982 new titles, making 1937 the biggest publishing year since 1929. There were 1,798 new novels, 610 biographies and autobiographies, 302 travel books, 991 new titles in the field of belles-lettres that includes poetry and criticism, 685 titles that came under the general head of politics, economics and the social sciences. In this enormous mass of bookssed, confusing...