Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sites: Camden, Atlantic City, Asbury Park and a spot near the Jersey end of the George Washington Bridge, just across the river from New York City) will add $5,000,000 a year for State Relief, avert a threatened State income tax (which Jerseyites have so far escaped) and put 6,000 men to work. At least that is what the politicians promised the voters...
...years old this week. In contrast to its anemic colleague, it is the most successful newspaper ever established in the U. S. The News has a daily circulation of 1,848,320, which is more than half the total circulation of all Manhattan's morning papers put together, the largest daily circulation in the land and third largest in the world (the London Daily Express has 2,466,323, the Herald over 2,000,000). The Sunday News sells 3,464,290 copies, a bare 300,000 less than London's record-holding News of the world...
...minded Humorist Will Rogers told Pan American Airways: "If you boys ever get around to flying the oceans, I want to be your first passenger," offered to make a cash deposit for the privilege. The airline refused his money, but put him at the head of its waiting list for both Atlantic and Pacific crossings, then only misty dreams. Before taking off for Siberia in 1935, Will Rogers tailed Pan American, asked if he could get back in time for the first Pacific flight. He could have, easily-but for the crack-up in lonely Point Barrow, Alaska, which killed...
...submarine Lakes). When Columbia Pictures signed her, Harriette changed her name to Ann Sothern, dyed her brown hair to varying blonde shades, got nowhere in particular. RKO took her over, let her hair drift back to its natural shade, called her a "brownette," let her endorse Luckies, put her in fancy comedy (Smartest Girl in Town, Walking on Air, There Goes the Groom). This winter Cinemactress Sothern made up her pert mind to try something different. In Trade Winds (TIME, Dec. 26), she started her traipse back to earth...
Stanford's special celebration is a meeting. It is not a mass meeting of laymen nor a big crowded convention like last week's meeting in Milwaukee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at which almost any academic Tom, Dick or Harry could put in his 2? worth...