Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...building industry, notably in the Residential field, turned sharply upward. Volume of 1935 retail trade was estimated to have been as high as $33,000,000,000-18% above 1934. Industries with new all-time records included power, shoes, gasoline, electric refrigerators, Diesel engines, cigarets, oil burners, plate glass, rayon, airlines. Excess bank reserves climbed $1,000,000,000, and U. S. gold stocks increased from $8,200,000,000 to nearly $10,000,000,000. Capital markets reopened; the Blue Eagle was killed; business confidence picked up almost as much as business, and further recovery was unanimously predicted...
When Giulio Gatti-Casazza took his name plate from his office door last spring and for the last time hulked out of the shabby old Metropolitan Opera House, a musical era reached its end in Manhattan. For 27 years Giulio Gatti-Casazza had guided the Metropolitan's affairs shrewdly and cosily. At its best his long regime stood for many a stirring performance, for the presentation of many a top-notch singer, for real opera glamour. The end was different. Though the tired old impresario was granted every honor, his spirit seemed broken when Depression left his Company impoverished...
McKeesport Tin Plate, to President Edwin Robert Crawford $173,750; to Vice President G. V. Parkins...
...where a Marine detachment and Secret Service men shivered all the chill night through. Before the Little White House several members of the detachment stood guard. Presently up the wooded lane with a Secret Service man at the wheel drove a little touring car bearing a 1935 Georgia license plate whose sole symbol was "R." Behind it came more Secret Servants in a big Pierce-Arrow bearing a District of Columbia license and another plate, emblazoned "USSS." From the door of the Little White House, President Roosevelt emerged. His bodyguard helped tuck him into the driver's seat...
There was little criticism of the society's chief award, a $50 first prize to Kerr Eby for an impressive oblong plate, September 13, 1918. This etching showed an endless line of steel-helmeted soldiers plodding on toward the Front under an enormous black cloud while lines of wounded squatted in the ditches, waiting for them to pass...