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...there have been rumors of an oil shortage in the United States and they have all been proven false. The current rumors are no exception. During the recent war, Secretary lakes and Mr. Ralph K. Davies, deputy Petroleum Administrator (he is an excellent example of the tightly-woven mesh that connects Big Oil and the Government), issued a statement to the effect that within 20 years there would be no more...
...firm and in 1936 was voted the "most popular escort" by the city's debutantes. He was dashing and debonair. In spare moments in 1936, he worked for the election of a reform candidate for governor against Huey's man, Richard Leche (rhymes with mesh). Leche won the governorship but later went to jail (and has now quietly retired to a farm...
...dealer, lecturer, florist and real-estate man. He developed the cost-saving construction method while building houses (and pools) for movie stars in 1936 at fashionable Brentwood. Instead of a flatbottomed, straight-sided pool, which needed expensive forms and supports, he used a rounded bottom, based on steel-wire mesh. By using a pneumatic hose to pour the concrete, Ilsley cut construction time to six days...
...skeptical U.S. radiomen, BBC's Transcription Director Thomas P. Gale had a ready comment on casual British timing: ". . . If the sieve we use for selecting broadcast material leaves works like these on the wrong side, then I think we should change our mesh...
Marking gears first mesh when a course instructor is issued a grade sheet at examination time, which is due back within a week, complete with inked-in "A"s through "E"s. The grade sheet must be signed by the teacher, Kennedy explained, for the purpose of "authenticity...