Word: mammoths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wanted to be convinced that the mammoth Hughes plane was worth the time (twelve more months), the money ($16,500,000) that was being lavished on it. Confident Mr. Hughes took time off from planemaking to convince WPB. Despite all rumors, he said, the work was going along well. Reported Hughes: 1) the engineering work for the entire plane was practically completed; 2) the construction of the wings was well along and work was under way on the fuselage; 3) the plane would be ready to fly late...
...some reason the mammoth Camp Edwards eleven keeps losing games, and so the Crimson may escape the expected shellacking that seemed so obvious when the two teams met last month and the Harvards surprised everybody with a 7-0 victory...
...nothing new to Memorial Hall, which is today, for the third time, a center of service activity here. The mammoth halls of Mem are being used today by men of the Army Chaplain's School, the Naval Training Schools, and the Naval R.O.T.C...
Radio listeners who tuned in the Blue Network's Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street last Sunday night heard a mammoth left hand beating out the solidest bass in U.S. pianism, a right hand doing fine and jubilant things. The hands were those of the great Thomas Wright ("Fats") Waller, short-time student of Leopold Godowsky and lifelong admirer of James P. Johnson, the great professor of Jamaica, L.I. Even a tyro in such matters might easily guess what experts have known for years: that Fats Waller is the payoff in the classic American jazz piano style-full...
...Department's mammoth Pentagon Building in Washington, the capital's most fabulous new sight, has eight cafeterias and two dining rooms which serve 40,000 meals a day. One day last winter ambulances clanged up, carted away 50 Pentagon diners griped by contaminated salad dressing. The Pentagon hastily changed cafeteria managers; the Welfare and Recreational Association, which runs the cafeterias in most of Washington's government buildings, took charge...