Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WAFS. For the present, all 11,000 jobs are filled in the WAFS-Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Most popular, most beauteous and toniest service, these women live in hostels near air fields and not only cook and chauffeur but get into jumpers and help repair and maintain airplane motors. Technologically it is the top service among the women's fighting forces, and it also has the appeal of propinquity to gallant young airmen...
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Died. Carl ("Uncle Carl") Laemmle Sr., 72, tiny cinemaster, pioneer producer of the first full-length photoplay, Traffic In Souls (1912), the first $1,000,000 picture, Foolish Wives (1922), originator of the publicity-bountiful scheme of calling popular actors "stars"; of a heart attack; in Hollywood, Calif...
...Most practical name-calling, so far as scientific convenience is concerned, would be to recognize each vitamin by its chemical name. Thus vitamin E would be known as alpha tocopherol, C as ascorbic acid, B² as riboflavin. But since the word vitamin is as popular with laymen as "calory" once was, chemists will probably continue in their alphabetical way until they bump into...
...Other popular records of the month: Day |n-Day Out (Artie Shaw; Bluebird). Rube Bloom's popular-melody-of-the-month played by a sound dance band...