Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With millions of sharks to be had for the taking, he thinks the shark business has a big future. Shark oil is used for tanning, steel-tempering, paint-making. Tons of shark meat, which tastes something like lobster, are sold daily throughout the world, usually under the name of "rock salmon" or "grayfish." Ground-up shark carcass makes good poultry feed or fertilizer. Chinese snap up shark fins for making soup...
...start of highway construction took a few hundred jobless. Federal flood-control work on the Missouri took 300 more. To supply crushed rock for the river and highway work two new quarries were opened, four old ones reopened. That took another 300. Gravel pits resumed operations with truckers getting contracts. A small packing plant and Refrigerator Express Co. leased part of the vacant Burlington shops. Payrolls were spent in Plattsmouth and merchants took on help...
...back home. As every reader of newspapers is by now aware. Franklin Roosevelt's Eleanor uses No. 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. less as a home than as a base of operations. Mrs. Madison was limited to horses as her means of locomotion. Mrs. Roosevelt rides her horse Dot in Rock Creek Park for fun. To get herself places she has at her command airplanes, trains and a blue Buick convertible coupe. Since March 4 she has traveled incessantly up & down the nation, across it and back, visiting all manner of places and institutions. She has traversed its skies...
Most of the marvels have to do with acoustics. Each of the 35 studios, 16 of which are in use, is a room within a room, supported clear of the building floors by heavily padded steel springs, and sound insulated by three inches of rock-wool, 250 tons of which were used in all. Every studio has an observation room, a clients' (advertisers') booth and a control room, all shut off from the studio proper by three thicknesses of plate glass...
...character from Cervantes is illiterate Juan March, "richest man in Spain." He rolled up to the yellow stucco Rock Hotel at Gibraltar last week with his jailer and a carload of friends, thumbed his nose at the Government of Spain and went to bed. Sallow Castilians slapped their thighs and swore that Por Dios, Juan had done it again...