Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many as 160 once before. We expect several hundred people to phone us their orders. We shall have six girls on the telephones ... a score of extra salesmen in our San Francisco store." The day of the great Samuels silver sale dawned cold and grey. Soon it began to rain. It rained all day. Enough patriotic San Franciscans went to Samuels' in slickers and galoshes to keep the extra crew of clerks busy. But as a record-breaking sale it was a wet, soggy flop...
...Theatre Guild has brought Jane Cowl and John Halliday to the Plymouth this week in "Rain From Heaven," as the second play of its Boston Subscription Season. The play was written by S. N. Behrman, from whose pen came last season's success, "Biography." Those who expected a similar play, however, would have been disappointed, for this new work is something of a comedy at times and at others is poignant drama. But it is highly entertaining and it is good drama...
...story of a 19th Century man who went to sleep and woke up in the year 2000 and was shown what the world was like then. This marvelous book described radio and television. It told of giant umbrellas to spread over whole cities to keep off rain and snow. But its chief interest was that it told how poverty had been abolished, how private industry had been taken over by a state syndicate, how everybody worked to produce plenty of goods for everybody else. Bellamy also had an idea how the unemployed could be put to work making goods...
...goods manufacturer named John David Brock. He learned to fly in 1922, has owned a plane ever since. In the autumn of 1929 he observed in his logbook that he had missed only eleven days' flying that year. For fun, he decided to try flying every day. In rain, shine, snow and fog, he went up daily for a 15-minute spin. Even when sub-zero weather grounded the airmail Dr. Brock took off. In dead of winter snowplows cleared runways for him. When he came down ice was chopped from his wings...
...University of California at Los Angeles),* an indignation meeting of 3,000 students manhandled a campus policeman, tossed him over a hedge. Riot squads shrieked down on the campus to find the crowd already dispersed. Few days later 200 athletes & hangers-on met by torch light in a drizzling rain to form the "U. C. L. A. Americans." pledged to crush campus radicalism ''by force if necessary...