Word: houres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office building in the world, the headstone of the group; the 50-mile view from its roof; 30,000 square feet of roof area on its eleventh floor; National Broadcasting Co.'s 35 radio and television studios, in which 20,000,000 cubic feet of air circulate every hour; its transparent woman with the illuminated organs...
This castor-oil operation may, as the Italian press claimed, merely have removed faithful servants so that other faithful servants might have their hour. But foreign commentators could not help noticing an obvious common denominator: the important purgees were strongly pro-Axis. Only ministers left were Foreign Minister Count Ciano, popular Minister of Justice Dino Grandi, Premier Mussolini himself (War, Navy, Air, Interior), and three others-the neutrality bloc. Italy, it seemed, wanted no entangling alliances...
...first weekend jaunt to New York in six years starting immediately after Thursday's rally, the band performed in Palmer Stadium after one hour of practice, opening its program by spelling "Hello Nassau" and "Herring...
...turned out this year, are all but foolproof. They cost as little as $1,098 new, far less at secondhand, may be hired at 4? per seat per mile. In one such, Langewiesche flew from New York to Key West. The cost of fuel, oil, hangars, a standard 20-hour engine check...
...prison into a fetid Turkish bath, nor of their grim diet, nor of the dhobie itch and typhus brought aboard by Japanese prisoners, nor even of scurvy, which began to rot them on the voyage home, through a hurricane that left the Wolf leaking 40 tons of water an hour, through the ice-jammed Arctic and the dreaded North Sea blockade. Eventually they felt for Captain Nerger the respectful gratitude due a hero who had saved their lives...