Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...batch of foreign bonds. In 1914. when the Germans were bearing down on Paris, he was called to print bank notes for France, but the order was canceled when Paris did not fall. He went to American Bank Note 46 years ago at $7 a week as a plate toter. It is his passion for exercise, he thinks, that makes him look 15 years younger than his 64 years...
...White House and crated for shipment to his home as a souvenir.* Into the spacious, many-windowed Cabinet room were trundled ten brand new chairs for Franklin Delano Roosevelt to fill with his ten chief advisers. On the high stiff back of each chair was a metal plate naming the Cabinet job but not the jobholder...
...American Legion last autumn. The Harmon Foundation now gives him an occasional meal, provides him with canvas and paints. His winning composition shows an African head beside a heaping vase of spotted Argus orchids (Cypripedium). Such orchids cost about $2 per bloom. Artist Hayden painted them through the plate glass of a Fifth Avenue florist's window...
...door the reporter knocked as usual and heard the occupant of the room arise to open it. Then his eye fell on the name-plate. "Henry penny packer." Needless to say he was not given the privilege of an interview...
...year 1932 was one of the best comet years in recent history when 14 were either discovered, or reappeared after a long absence. On August 9 Whipple observed a new comet on a photographic plate. The photograph was taken with a one-inch lens and the body can be discerned on a clear night with the naked eye. The comet was seen a few hours earlier by Peltier, a variable star observer in Ohio, who saw it without a telescope. In California a Japanese vegetable grower, named Sase, who was busy with his lens saw it also with the result...