Word: occur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...milestone in jazz history may well occur in Boston on Monday, March 12, when five of the greatest living Now Orleans jazzmen gather together at the Savoy Cafe. The world famous soprano saxophone star, Sidney Bechet, will open a four weeks engagement at the Massachusetts Avenue club with a new Dixieland Band featuring Pops Foster, Bunk Johnson, Hank Duncan, and Fred Moore. The Bechet quintet will also appear Monday night at 30 Huntington Avenue in a concert sponsored by the Boston Jazz Society. George Frazier, former CRIMSON columnist and present Theatre Editor of Life magazine, will be in town...
...while Bill Gurganus at the last minute under pressure has agreed to put it off. It seems he has a good poker hand very much in demand next term. Bill Patrick, the man with the embarrassing memory, wishes to make a public statement to the effect that slips will occur and he'll be glad to offer his services as defense counsel at any board meeting...
...than imports, the foreign gold and dollar hoard will prove a temporary buffer against the artificial exchange controls which helped strangle foreign trade before the war. Said the Reserve Board: "Foreign countries will be able to meet larger deficits in their international transactions with the U.S., should such deficits occur, without resorting to currency depreciation, exchange control or drastic measures of internal deflation...
...October Air Transport, a veteran airlines pilot, Pat Curtin, tells some of the airmen's strange stories about migrating birds. Most collisions occur at night or in clouds, when both planes and birds are flying blind. Migrating birds usually fly at night, stopping to feed in daylight. Ornithologists agree that they seem to have a sixth sense which enables them to fly even in "instrument weather." Curtin says that one pilot, chasing flocks of ducks, has seen them take cover in clouds. Once a covey flew round & round inside a small cloud while he circled it in his plane...
Pennsylvania's level headed Representative Herman P. Eberharter best summed up the dying Congress' feeble handling of the problem. Said he: "These gentlemen fail to realize the magnitude of the shock that is going to occur in this country. . . . They are failing to look forward to the future with any vision. . . . They are failing to attack the problem now because it requires a little bit of courage...