Word: fish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Photoelectrically controlled Bessemer steel is mainly due to a man with a jocular drawl, who likes to fish, take photographs of steel mills, put his feet on his desk. His name is Herbert W. Graham and J. & L. got him fresh from Lehigh University in 1914. He once told his research staff that, instead of 200 bright ideas a year, he would rather have two ideas that worked. In 1934 smart Metallurgist Graham persuaded J. & L. to let him build a complete miniature pilot mill to try out new metallurgical ideas. In this mill he developed...
...fair spring night it was filled with hundreds of men with starched white bosoms, and hundreds of rustling ladies. Back of them stood a new, long, spacious building faced with marble and glass; inside it other crowds could be seen, swishing past its plate-glass panels like frilly fish in a bright aquarium. Occasion for these beautiful doings was the formal opening of the long-awaited, permanent home of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (since 1937 temporarily camped in offices and basement galleries of the TIME & LIFE Building in Rockefeller Center). In equal parts swank, sober and glamorous...
...with the 1-2-3" for the verse. Kent created "life is just so fine on the solid side of the line." Pattie, Kent, Shoen and myself worked out the lines "I like my tasty butterfish, when I come home from work at night, I get my favorite dish-fish!" The "fish" break, worked out by Shoen, is one of the most important punches to the song...
...unpaid extras, Omaha's obliging womenfolk togged themselves out in 1869 costumes, Omaha's stores and bars were flimflammed with pioneer signs and doodads. The school board decreed two Golden Spike holidays. Omaha's Roman Catholic Bishop James Hugh Ryan dispensed his flock from eating fish on Friday. Fearing that its press-agentry would be submerged in the civic celebrations, Paramount loaded Barbara Stanwyck and some of Union Pacific's cast (but not Joel McCrea, under contract to jealous and immovable Producer Samuel Goldwyn) on a train which triumphantly journeyed from Los Angeles, was mobbed even...
Martin ran against Ham Fish in the 26th Congressional district of New York on the Democratic and Labor ticket, losing in the face of the Dewey landslide, but finishing well ahead of his ticket. A representative of the younger element in politics. Martin graduated from the University of California in 1934, where he was president of the college comic magazine. He is a brother-in-law of John S. Stillman, president...