Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appoint a Chief Engineer, who shall receive a salary of $10,000 per annum, and not to exceed two assistants to such Chief Engineer at salaries not to exceed $7,500 per annum. . . .' The engineering work of the Federal Radio Commission has been performed heretofore by Capt. Hill, U. S. A., and, before him, by Commander Craven...
...difficult, that its pitch was not too high. Proudly Captain Walter I. Joyce of the Veterans of Foreign Wars dumped before the Committee a great bale of documents which he said contained 6,020.000 signatures petitioning the anthem's official adoption. Said he: "I stood on San Juan Hill in '98 and heard four bands play that tune. All around me in pup tents men were lying sick with fever but when they heard that glorious old tune, every last man somehow got to his feet...
...Guaranteed.! Analyze it, mister! I esk you personally to analyze it! We call this our 'ladies' shop'! Four more we got in New York, and on Broadway one silver and black! Deliver anything anytime from 8 a. m. to 2 a. m. Just phone Murray Hill 7522 and ask for Mack. You see this cherry brandy?"-holding up a large bottle in which floated four cherries-"That stuff is 90 proof, ninetee proof...
...well known is the fact that the above-quoted exception was put into Mr. Volstead's act to permit the farmer, chief supporter of Prohibition, to make his wine and hard cider without Federal molestation. Recalled was the case of onetime Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland who publicly made high-powered wine in his home only to be acquitted in a test case by a Baltimore jury. In New York a court case was found where a U. S. judge had ordered confiscated ten barrels of home-made wine because it contained 13% alcohol...
...Milburn, N. J., Anton Boslavage, going up hill in his 15-ton steamroller, pulled the wrong lever. The roller rolled backward down the hill, got going faster and faster, reached town at 45 m. p. h., crushed two automobiles, broke a sidewalk, knocked the corner off a building, tossed Anton Boslavage, rolled over on its side...