Word: half-hour
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Upon receipt of news of Secretary Dern's death, Army guns from Portland to Pearl Harbor boomed the traditional salute at half-hour intervals, 19 blasts at retreat. A train was shrouded to take Secretary Dern's body back to Salt Lake City for burial. At Bismarck, N. Dak., President Roosevelt rearranged his Drought tour to attend the funeral, was obliged to postpone for two days his Des Moines meeting with Governor Landon...
...press conference one day last week President Roosevelt announced that his equally warm friend, Ambassador to France Jesse Isidor Straus, who fainted while reviewing a Bastille Day parade in Paris, had been forced to resign his job because of ill health. Half-hour later a one-line White House release announced that Ambassador Straus's successor at Paris would be William Christian Bullitt...
...After a half-hour melee twelve disheveled prisoners were herded to police station, held over night, paroled the next morning. An uninterested spectator was Fisticutter Schmeling who watched the brawling for a minute, shrugged his shoulders, departed for his cabin...
...rate of some $1,800,000 a year. This season the Ford Symphony Orchestra will grind out time-honored classics on Sunday nights under such conductors as Victor Kolar, Eugene Ormandy, Alexander Smallens, Fritz Reiner. Fred Waring's band and entertainers will go after the young folks in half-hour periods, one on N. B. C., one on C. b. S., at other times in the week. For such talents Henry Ford will probably pay another $750,000 a year after settling up with...
...above the rails. Its wheels were only 26 in. in diameter instead of the standard 33 in. A huge railroad crane lifted the mirror slowly to a vertical position, swung it clear of the trailer. Inch by inch it was lowered into the railroad car. For a half-hour it was allowed to settle comfortably into the recess. Then the New York Central Railroad man telephoned his home office that the loading was complete...