Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aviation: Field-Marshal Hermann Goering...
Army Commander: Field Marshal Fevsi Cakmak...
Commander-in-Chief of the Field Forces: General the Viscount Gort...
...real upswing came in 1934 when two things happened: 1) RCA began to remember and worry about its long dormant record business; 2) a brand new concern, Decca, entered the field with a sheaf of fresh ideas. Dapper, bespectacled Jack Kapp and his codirector, Edward R. Lewis, had long contended that what the country needed was a good 35? record (standard prices had previously ranged from 75? to $2). Signing up big names in the popular field (biggest: Crooner Bing Crosby-see p. 50), Decca put this contention to the test, and sales began to skyrocket. Today, the five-year...
...concentrated in a maximum half hour of a sweltering summer afternoon. Revolving from furnace room to Surgery, from the laundry to superintendent's office, it includes autopsy room, nurses' quarters, wards, clinic, even a scene in which a tugboat is loaded with consignments for potter's field...