Word: lees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arthur Horner himself, with a grimness he almost seemed to relish, told 50,000 of his men at Morpeth last week: "We shall be five million tons short of our requirements by the end of 1947." Mrs. Ivy Lee, a young London matron, understood what that meant. She said: "A good thing I didn't give away my little boy's push pram-looks like coming in handy again this winter, if we have to queue for a few pounds down at the old coal wharf...
...veteran and what he does with the money," declared John D. Black, Henry Lee Professor of Economics. "If all that purchasing power is thrust on the consumption market at once, it's bound to have a boosting effect upon prices...
...Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the Year . . . shows the following eight schools as having been founded in the year indicated: 1) Harvard-1636, 2) William & Mary-1693, 3) Yale-1701, 4) University of Pennsylvania-1740, 5) Princeton-1746, 6) Washington & Lee-1749, 7) Columbia-1754, 8) Brown-1764. This puzzles me. . . . RICHARD H. MILLER Washington...
Dolores Costello, 41, blonde screen belle of the '20s and early '30s, was haled into a Los Angeles court by her brother-in-law, Lee LeBlanc. The court had given Dolores custody of his six-year-old daughter; now he wanted the right to see her on weekends...
When it comes to music, U.S. college kids know what they like. In Billboard's ninth annual college poll, out last week, they still preferred sweet to swing, had the same favorite girl singers (Jo Stafford, Dinah Shore, Peggy Lee) and liked the same swing band (Stan Kenton's) as last year. Tommy Dorsey's sweet band was no longer tops (actually he had disbanded it. but it was voted second best anyway). The new favorite: Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Among male singers, Bing Crosby lost first place to Frank Sinatra for the first...