Word: ince
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...persons may be deprived of homes and countries by the war. > Sent a warm message to Turkey's President Ismet Inönü on modern Turkey's 16th anniversary celebration. > Rapped the work of the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, Inc., in its attempt to adjust Latin-American defaulted bonds held by U. S. investors, refused to comment on whether or not he favored scaling down the $1,000,000,000 Latin-American debts. Reason: the inter-American economic conference next month. > Tut-tutted flesh-creepers in a radio speech on the New York Herald Tribune Forum. Said...
...Time of Your Life (by William Saroyan; produced by the Theatre Guild Inc. in association with Eddie Dowling). Last season Short-Story Writer William Saroyan made his bow as a playwright with a long, whimsical one-acter, My Heart's in the Highlands, drew praise from many critics. Last week, with his first full-length play, Saroyan had most of the critics throwing their hats in the air. They were willing to forgive The Time of Your Life its lack of form and dearth of plot because of its "poignant beauty," "high quality of imagination," "ever-warming tenderness...
Another, bigger construction aristocrat is the engineering subsidiary of Stone & Webster, Inc., utility advisers, founded in two small rooms in Post Office Square, Boston 50 years ago by M. I. T. Men Charles A. Stone and Edwin S. Webster. In that half-century they have over $1,000,000,000 of construction, $11,000,000,000 of appraisal work to their credit. In the last fortnight, Stone & Webster's engineering offshoot took in more orders than in 1939's first eight months, ran its backlog up to $31,000,000 and was dickering for another...
...years ago, Young, who could be taken for a missionary (which his brother Paul, who has occasionally cooperated with him, is), was making quite a thing out of the Latin American and domestic market for munitions. He was engaged in "Protection Engineering" as president of Federal Laboratories, Inc., whose sales zoomed during NRA days as vendors of tear gas and machine guns to corporations involved in labor difficulties. Senator Nye's Munitions Committee and Senator La Follette's Civil Liberties Committee both investigated Mr. Young. Choice reports to Young publicized by the Committees: from Missionary Brother Paul...
...steely-bright with surgical knives, forks and spoons, rooms crowded with electrical vibrating beds, weird steel scaffolds for broken limbs, gently breathing rubber bellows for warming frozen toes. Among the most popular of the commercial exhibits was the table of urological tubes and periscopes shown by C. R. Bard, Inc. of Manhattan. Over the table hung a large panel of giddy French cartoons, drawn 30 years ago by A. Barrère, depicting the famed faculty of Sorbonne surgeons as inept and bloody butchers...