Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a U. S. church, when in need of money, knows of philanthropists who are good for a touch. But rare is the touchee available to more than one sect. Thus last week the richest man in Bartlesville, Okla. (pop. 14,763) made news by paying off the debts of the town's five principal churches. He, President Frank Phillips of Phillips Petroleum Corp., a Methodist, had last Christmas directed the town's leading banker to investigate local church finances. Last week, while other Oklahomans were debating whether Judas hanged himself on a redbud tree, Oilman Phillips quietly...
...advantage of the uniforms is that at meetings when Communists pop up, it's easier to spot them." The new uniforms, the spokesmen declared, would cost about $28 apiece. Jewish tailors would get none of the business...
...Plow it under!" advised Colonel Frank Knox's Chicago Daily News last week as the cheesemaking farmers of Green County gathered at tiny (pop. 644) Monticello, Wis. to do something about their 1,000,000-lb. limburger surplus, which was threatening to knock the bottom out of the limburger market (now 15? per lb.). Source of three-fourths of the nation's annual 11,000,000-lb. of limburger supply, Green County's farmers did not take the News's suggestion. Instead they declared a holiday. For 46 days until May 1 no new limburger will...
...Maille, to give him his Gaelic, was a boy of 18 when the Trouble started. Old Mother Ireland and her woes meant little to him: his family were gentry and his childhood in Mayo and Dublin had been governess-guarded. But when the guns began to pop in Dublin's Easter Week rising, O Malley's heart told him that he was Irish too. He sneaked out of the house after dark, joined a pal who had a rifle, took turns firing at British rifle flashes. Soon he had joined the Irish Republican Army as a volunteer, left...
...gold bars and his capital totals some $1,400,000,000, not to mention the fabled "Mines of Golconda." In English poesy, these disgorge a never-ending stream of diamonds. They lie immediately west of the city of Hyderabad, India's fourth largest metropolis (pop. 400,000). frowned upon by the beet-domed tombs of the Royal Family (see cut, p. 22) about five miles out in the suburbs. Poesy aside, the Mines of Golconda have yielded diamonds in only trifling quantity and were exhausted long ago. What fooled early English travelers was the fact that Golconda was long...