Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They claim, moreover, that production is being delayed by great difficulties in securing plumbing and wiring, as well as by the considerable amount of landscaping necessary. The units themselves will be of only mediocre calibre, inferior rock-wool is to serve as insulation, and plasterboard as wall-paneling...
Defense in Depth. In Little Rock, Ark., Joseph B. Bates admitted sending obscene letters to religious publications. His reason : the housing shortage kept him from living with his wife, who would have kept him from mailing that sort of letter...
...Gibson, who in moments of supreme pianistic ecstasy throws his feet on the keyboard. No. 2 man is Bulee ("Slim") Gaillard, a skyscraping, zooty Negro guitarist. Gibson & Gaillard have recorded such hep numbers as Cement Mixer, which has sold more than 20,000 discs in Los Angeles alone; Yop Rock Heresay, Dreisix Cents and Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine? Sample lyrics...
...closest thing to Hell on earth last week was in the midst of the sea-a tortured little patch of dismal grey rock some 235 miles south of Tokyo. For at least four weeks-since it was first sighted by the crew of a British destroyer-the islet, a product of submarine volcanic eruption, has been boiling the sea into clouds of sulphurous steam, belching great blasts of smoke and roiling the muddy bottom for miles around...
Then the U.S. Government swung into action. Guards protected the swans at their refuges, in Yellowstone Park and Red Rock Lakes, Mont., shoveled out hundreds of bushels of grain in winter; built towers from which in spring they tom-peeped at the nesting areas...