Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Raymond Pitcairn, director of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., insisted that "no Wickersham commission is needed to investigate the rotten failure of Prohibition." Said he: "The people know it. The President and his Cabinet know it. Mr. Hughes knows it. Congress knows it. The young people know it best of all. But the prohibitionists don't know it. The Bellevue-Stratford and. Ritz-Carlton in Philadelphia station these prohibitionists near the serving pantries of their hotel. They see large glasses of orange juice and bottles of White Rock and club soda going to many rooms on every floor. These good...
Body and hood to be of half-inch thick navy steel plate, designed to shed bullets...
...away from the Westphalian home to England. After, drab vicissitudes there she became an actress of small parts, famed in a minor way for her vigorous championing of underdogs. One day she heard Emmeline Pankhurst speak on suffragism. Miss Marion* became a militant suffraget. To break her first plate-glass window she was obliged to throw two bricks, because "I didn't know how hard you had to heave to really break the glass." She went to jail, the first of seven such trips. Four jail terms she went on hunger strikes. She kept count of the number...
...etched plate wears out after 75 or 100 proofs have been "pulled." Last week Director Charles L. Offin of The Etchers' Guild warned the public against mechanically reproduced facsimiles now sold in drug stores for $1 each...
...Manhattan, one John Baker was carrying so many doughnuts piled on a plate that he failed to see, over them, the open door of an elevator shaft at the bottom of which he was found, among his doughnuts, dead...