Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Uncle Sam, Cuban sugar men have therefore smacked into a tough bargainer. The U.S. offer to Cuba last month: a 40% cut in production, last year's price, plus two measly sops in the form of 1-1½? a Ib. for an additional 400,000-ton stock pile and vague offers to help Cuba diversify its one-crop economy (which is more than high-cost domestic producers have been persuaded...
...line-ups will be those which will face the Blue the following week. After Felt left, Decker Orr was moved up definitely to the number one post, for which he has been a serious contender ever since he won the invitation Tournament in New York during the vacation. Following pile-driving Orr will be Tom Sears, who placed second in the vacation play, losing to Orr after maintaining a perfect record in the early rounds...
...Bethlehem innkeeper & wife. These roles were not designed to exploit the Lunts' facility with bang and banter. Further, they were not favored by WOR-Mutual's jerky dramatization of the life and death of Russia's hero Nikolai Gastello, who dived into a German gasoline stock pile. The Lunts could not make Gastello's parents even as convincing as the script made his act-which was not too convincing...
...Iceland. In Africa he has one of the Air Forces' most dangerous jobs, including what pilots and photographers call "dicing"-flying as low as 100 feet over enemy targets for close-up pictures. Roosevelt has "diced" Tunisia, Sicily and Sardinia, and last week he was still trying to pile up more combat-flying time than any other man in his unit. One reason for his zeal: he knows that many men in the Army look with suspicion on "the President...
Last week he took matters into his own hands. While planting some locust trees in his garden he discussed the cannon with a tree surgeon, one Sidney Stearns. Ralph Coghlan said he was "very serious" about wanting those cannon on the scrap pile. Upshot: Arborist Stearns agreed to get a friend and remove the cannon; Editor Coghlan agreed to pay the expenses. Further upshot: when Stearns and. friend tried to uproot the cannon they were arrested. The case was suddenly complicated when police found a loaded revolver, a full can of gasoline and a sixth tire in Stearns...