Word: offs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For the last 20 years, while flightier musicians have run off after every new craze in jazz, swing or bebop, Wayne King has stuck tenaciously to the waltz. This week, his single-mindedness rewarded with a whopping $200,000 TV contract, the "Waltz King" began a 40-week show for...
Earth Waves. But underwater bombs and bombs exploded on a tower above ground smack the earth hard, as high airbursts do not. Seismic (earthquake) waves, shooting off in all directions, can be picked up at tremendous distances. Earth waves from Test Baker were detected by many seismographs on the U.S...
Gingerly, the two archeologists lifted the turban off. Beneath it, stuffed into the bundle like wash into a laundry bag, were some of the gaudiest garments, shirts, kilts and shawls, ever worn by man. Most of them were made of embroidery so delicate that the tiny stitches covering all the...
But after listening to one bureau confess a mistake, economists and businessmen raised their eyebrows at the Bureau of the Census, whose optimistic employment estimates for August (51,400,000) had set off a hallelujah chorus of hope for a big upturn. The Bureau of the Census coldly replied that...
With his fight won, Jacob promptly began trimming his liquor prices again. This time he had plenty of company. Chicago department stores, Goldblatt's and Wieboldt's, slashed 96? off fifths of such bonded bourbons as Old Crow, Old Forester and I. W. Harper (new price $5.79), made...