Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aiken Polo Team: four pieces of silver plate, emblematic of beating Santa Paula in a series of international matches at Chicago. Old Aiken won the first match, 14 to 11 (TIME, July 20); Santa Paula won the second 11 to 8 when Stewart Iglehart, Old Aiken No. 3, fell ill. Fifty-three-year-old James Cooley, substitute No. 1 for Old Aiken, made the deciding goal in the last minute of the last match. Score...
...state that Guide Hall saw a big car with a Mississippi tag rolling toward him. Since the State of Mississippi uses only one license plate, which is in the rear, it is evident that Guide Hall was able to distinguish this car by one of Mississippi's famed products. "Mississippi Mud." You neglected to state in your article that Mississippi probably has fewer paved roads than any other State in the Union...
...Glass. Potent in many lines of industry in addition to automobiles, last week General Motors Corp. retired from the glassmaking business. For a reputed sum of $9,000,000 G-M sold its subsidiary, National Plate Glass Co. to big Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. (unconnected with Ford Motor Co.). Said L-O-F President John D. Biggers, "We have been working on these negotiations for five months and are all very happy." For the next seven years the bulk of glass used by General Motors will be bought from Libbey-Owens-Ford, a contract probably involving over...
...Will the Government state how much silver plate belonging to the British Embassy in Russia remains to be found to complete the service...
...Other dinosaurs: double-beamed Diplodocus which measured 85 ft. along long tail and long neck; stocky Brachiosaurus which could look over a four-story building; the grappling Iguanodon; spike-tailed Stegosaums with a crest of bony armor-plate along his spine. Alligators and crocodiles are insignificant living relatives of the Dinosaurs who ruled the earth from 420 to 150 million years...