Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some 1,200,000 copies of the Manhattan telephone directory were distributed to subscribers, including an extra supply for booths in Times Square, Grand Central and Pennsylvania Station, where the average book lasts only two days (because readers tear out the pages). Students noted the shortest listing (a firm called "A"), an increase in "atomic" listings to 35 from last year's 19, including the "Atomic Undergarment...
...spotless white satin, with a pink ribbon in her curly black hair, Margaret made her debut as a concert pianist last week in Chicago's Carey Temple (African Methodist Episcopal). She gave the audience a curtsy, saw that her doll Rosezarian was seated on a chair beside the grand piano, then clambered up on the bench and began a Bach minuet. After that and a selection from Mozart's Magic Flute, her teacher had to ask the audience to hold their applause until the first part of the recital was over. Altogether, Margaret played 14 pieces, including Schubert...
...restraints among 1) eight major rubber companies and their Rubber Manufacturers Association; 2) twenty manufacturers of brake linings and clutch facings and their Brake Lining Manufacturers Association; 3) the Eastman Kodak Co. and Technicolor Inc., charged with monopolizing the processing of color film. This week, it impaneled a federal grand jury in Washington to investigate alleged price-fixing by oil companies...
...real estate boards operating in the District of Columbia were indicted by a Federal Grand Jury yesterday on charges of fixing commission rates for real estate dealers in Washington. The charges followed 15 days after Attorney General Clark's directive to the Department of Justice to seek out and prosecute conspiracies to boost the cost of food, clothing, and housing...
Georgia Sothern, grand old (32, she says) lady of the U.S. striptease business, spiced up the hot spell by paying a surprise call on her husband at a Springfield, 111. hotel room. As surprised as Husband Harry Finkelstein was his companion of the moment, Sally Rand, grand old (43, she says) lady of the fandanglers. Finkelstein was just treating her for heat exhaustion, protested Miss Rand, but Mrs. Finkelstein had them both arrested for disorderly conduct. Miss Rand's valedictory to the press as the police closed in: "I have nothing to hide...