Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week the Lords of the Admiralty in effect reversed the court martial's conviction of Captain Sawbridge of the Renown. His reduction to half pay was canceled. His sentence was reduced to a mere "reprimand." And in final vindication he was restored to full command of the Renown. Plain as a pikestaff was the fact that if a British admiral could be guilty, Admiral Bailey would...
...Gertrud Hrdliczka, a comely Viennese who was conducting in Russia when she met Werner Hofmann, a U. S. engineer who was installing machinery for a Soviet oil refinery. Conductor Hrdliczka quickly became Mrs. Hofmann, settled down to live in a plain clapboard house in Larchmont, N. Y. For her concert last week she somehow managed to hire 60 expert players from the Philharmonic-Symphony. The men liked her. Her manner was agreeable, her beat graceful and sure. Hrdliczka's concert sounded better than Antonia Brico's which took place four days later. But Antonia Brico had a stiffer...
...businessmen have often had the jitters in the past two years of the New Deal. Sometimes they have been critical, sometimes impatient, frequently downright fearful. Often they have been angry. Last week they were just plain gloomy...
Boyd's City Dispatch of Manhattan has been in the wholesale name business for 105 years. To salesmen and promoters it sells long lists of wealthy widows, clubmen, semi-millionaires, millionaires, multimillionaires and plain rich people. Last week Boyd's City Dispatch mailed out to its clients Bulletin 68-the latest name-list quotations. For $200 an energetic advertising manager can get the names of 14,441 people in New York City worth $100,000 or more. A batch of 721 multimillionaires costs $15, the wealthiest widows of Greater New York (1,172), $20. For $17.50 a buyer...
Most gypsum, however, is calcined by dehydrating with heat. With 75% of its moisture removed, gypsum becomes plaster of Paris.* And mixed with sand, hair, wood fibre, lime or other materials, calcined gypsum is just plain plaster...