Word: opening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gathered around their radios all over the Reich at three o'clock in the morning, wept into their beer. "Impossible," they wailed when the broadcast was abruptly cut off immediately after the announcement of the knockout. Cafe and restaurant owners, who had been given special permits to stay open until 6 a.m., wrung their hands as their patrons gloomily filed out three minutes after the broadcast began. Schmeling's wife, pretty Anny Ondra, who is one of the most popular cinemactresses in Germany, sobbed: "It's terrible that punches like that are permitted." Reichsführer Adolf...
...about the cages, seized their 270 mink kittens, gobbled them up. Attorneys for Messrs. Urell cited two previous court decisions as basis for their claims. Astoria townfolk, who had heard of damage awards granted in Washington and Alaska, were confident that Messrs. Urell would win the argument when hearings open this week...
Eighteen miles south of St. Augustine, Fla. is a brand new town, Marineland, where last week Marine Studios, Inc. opened a mammoth, $500,000 aquarium. Surrounded by palmetto trees and tropical shrubbery, the aquarium, world's largest, consists of two adjacent, open-air, steel and concrete tanks. The larger one is rectangular-100 by 40 ft. and 18 ft. deep; the other, an 11-ft.-deep, circular tank, is 75 ft. in diameter. Along the walls of both tanks are some 200 portholes...
Last week these potent chains had a new rival, a peewee 3d. & 6d. store named John Thrifty. It was started by none other than that fabulous merchant, Harry Gordon Selfridge, who left Chicago to open London's first modern department store in 1909. Last year Self ridge's did $65,000,000 worth of business, some $20,000,000 of it in provincial divisions, at a profit of $4,000,000. One highly successful department was the 3d. & od. section. This fact, plus a growing certainty that England is slipping steadily into a business recession, are Merchant Selfridge...
When Mr. Efron launched his $1-down plan, Heavyweight James J. Braddock and a large number of chorus girls allowed themselves to be photographed in the act of opening accounts. In three days, 700 people followed their example. In May 1937, across from its main Manhattan office, National Safety opened a branch devoted solely to CheckMaster accounts. By last week, when Banker Efron and other National Safety executives quietly cut into a cake to celebrate CheckMaster's third anniversary, the idea was an open-and-shut success: the base of deposit banking had been broadened considerably. Sixty...