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...Zealand, which has the world's fourth highest radio density (one for every 4.6 people) ate the parliamentary broadcasts up. Farmers fought their wives over the question of where to put the radio: dairy, barn or kitchen. Prime Minister Savage's pear-shaped tone and forthright manner quickly made him their favorite broadcaster. Conservatives have yet to produce his peer...
...masks, makeup, swords and fans of plot-bare, nuance-encrusted Chinese plays mystified Manhattan theatergoers in 1930, he was the biggest box-office name in China and long top-ranking tan (father of two sons, he always played feminine roles). Emperor Hsuan-tung confirmed his title, "Foremost of the Pear Orchard" -Chinese equivalent of an "Oscar...
Advertising held up because businessmen well knew what had happened to firms which had stopped advertising in World War I: the makers of such now-nearly-forgotten products as Sapolio, Pear's Soap, Omega Oil suffered; some even died...
Just 365 days ago this morning, enemy airmen swooped down on our sleeping, though forewarned, naval base at Pear! Harbor. Not until yesterday were the details of that disgraceful monument to official laxity and stupidity unveiled to the American people. Had the Japes known immediately what they had accomplished, the flag of the Rising Sun might even now be waving over Hawaii. Though we were spared that disaster, which might have knocked us out of the war before we had even started, we suffered defeat after defeat, retreat after retreat. Hong-Kong was the first to fall; them the Philippines...
...Washington as a $1-a-year man in the machine-tool section of OPM. Stifled there by red tape and bungling, he soon left, bought the venerable Sunnyvale (Calif.) Joshua Hendy Iron Works, whose physical assets consisted chiefly of a dilapidated foundry, an assortment machine tools, 35 acres of pear orchard's and some skilled machinists. One of them, Peter McKeand, ground the shaft for the old U.S.S. Oregon. In the spring of 1941 Moore got a contract for twelve reciprocating marine engines. By midsummer, after the shipbuilding program was trebled, Maritime Commission's Jerry Land telephoned Moore...