Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late in October 1929, no man could picture October 1939, no one at the outbreak of war could picture the U. S. ten years hence and see with confidence the conditions of its common life. Off in the unknown future lay a sequence of struggles that would number the prophets and the positive among its casualties. Off in the same future lay the contributions to the productive life to be tested against the forces of destruction. And off in the same future lay the challenge of great ideas to change the mood of the people, to determine where if anywhere...
...More Flexible." When Foreign Minister Vilhelms Munters of Latvia alighted in Moscow to face Stalin and Molotov they asked him to sign approximately the same form of treaty as was forced upon Estonia, except that it was "more flexible" from the Russian point of view, provided that an indefinite number of "airdromes" and "bases" shall be leased by Latvia as the Red Air Force and Army may later require, while the Red Navy leases bases in the ports of Libau and Windau. Again J. Stalin demanded exchange of ratifications within six days, but departing Foreign Minister Munters was not simply...
...great that efficiency was Adolf Hitler last week revealed in his speech to the members of the Reichstag. "As I am now about to make known to you the number of our dead and wounded," he said, "I request that you rise from your seats. . . . According to the casualty list of up to the soth of September 1939, which will not change materially, the total losses for the Army, Navy and Air Force, including officers, are as follows: 10,572 killed; 30,322 wounded; 3,404 missing. Unfortunately, of those missing a certain number who fell into Polish hands will...
...Fred Waring, Kay Kyser. But this season, sponsored by Turns, a carminative, Horace Heidt's Musical Knights went out in front with a burp. During Turns' Tuesday night half hour, a wheel of fortune is ceremoniously spun several times, eventually coming to rest on a telephone number somewhere in the U. S. A call is put in for the unnamed subscriber. The band plays on, but when the phone is answered, Announcer Ben Grauer shouts "Stop, stop, Horace!" When Horace stopped the first week, Grauer called into the telephone of Frank J. Drouin, a wood carver of Andover...
...slot machine, is a whopping success in Illinois. Listeners play it with Mu$1co cards, distributed each week by Kroger and National Tea Co. groceries in Chicago, Peoria and Rockford. Made up like Bingo cards, they have five rows of five spaces each, with tune titles instead of numbers. As the studio orchestra plays its string of some 20 tune choruses, listeners are supposed to identify and check off the titles on their cards. First one to fill a line across rushes to the telephone, dials a special number, shouts: "Musico!" Any single line filled...