Word: lamps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drove off. Jaunty, dark-haired Mary Jo was staying with her brother, J. H. Miller, on Dallas' quiet Monte Vista Street. As she undressed in the bathroom, she heard a sudden thud, a crash of glass, from the front bedroom where she slept. It sounded like a floor lamp falling over. Mary Jo ran in, saw a suitcase on the floor, under a broken window. Something was dreadfully wrong. She ran to the rear bedroom to wake her brother. Just as he stepped out of bed, the whole house came apart in a blasting crash. Mary...
...handle which an opponent in war might grasp; diffident Stalin wears huge mustachios to make himself look more inscrutable. Alexander was imaginative, athletic, quick as an ocelot; Stalin is practical, ponderous, deliberate as a bear. Only similarity: Diogenes, out looking for an honest man, would not shine his lamp in either Alexander's or Stalin's visage very long...
...replace Young, G.E. chose a handsome engineer-lawyer (B.S. in engineering from the University of Wisconsin, LL.B. from Fordham) named Philip D. Reed, who went to G.E. in 1926, worked mostly in the lamp department. Today Philip Reed is only...
Biggest thing on either man's public record is, by all odds, being chosen by Young and Swope. In 1937, when Wilson was vice president in charge of merchandise and appliances, and Reed general counsel to the lamp department, they were plucked and made respectively executive vice president and assistant to the president, there to ripen in the hands of Young and Swope. Last week's news was formal recognition of their coming...
Captain James P. Mahoney stated that the search had widened to all sections of Massachusetts, and that neighboring states had been asked to check damaged cars answering descriptions given by witnesses. Police also requested all garages and repair shops to report repairs on fenders or purchases of head-lamp lenses...