Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noon Fifth Avenue was crowded. Alfred Klausman, middle-aged office manager of a linen firm, walked across the street from his office to the bank on the corner and drew the weekly pay roll...
...contract called for a $20,000,000 arsenal to be built by Chrysler (Chrysler's fee: $1) for the Government, an initial order of 1,000 tanks at $33,500 apiece. Eddie Hunt said he could roll the first tank off the line within twelve months from contract date: that was Chrysler's promise...
Photographer Haas witnessed the end of the most exciting gun battle in many a day on the streets of Manhattan (see p. 75). When he got back to his office, developed his roll of film, Max Haas felt a little faint. In his camera were 14 of the best newspictures ever taken...
Nevertheless, in Noblesville last week there appeared the first issue of a mysterious "national weekly," Roll-Call, with a Washington, D. C. dateline, an Indianapolis address, and no mention of Noblesville at all. Publisher of Roll-Call is Carl Losey, but his name did not appear on the masthead. Neither did any other name. Devoted, according to its own statement, "to enactments of the Congress," Roll-Call was a hodgepodge of approving quotations from the speeches of isolationists like Senator Burton Wheeler, ex-Senator Rush Holt, unsigned attacks on Franklin Roosevelt, Federal spending, aid for Britain, the U. S. Army...
...Meharry students, and 2,771 of its graduates are practicing medicine, dentistry and nursing in 37 States. Meharry turns out many a good small-town general practitioner. Typical is the young graduate who in 1932 arrived in Fayetteville, Tenn. with bottles of paregoric and liniment, a roll of gauze, pair of scissors, $1 cash, a diploma. In a short time he established a small hospital, equipped his office with X-ray and fluoroscope, provided a diagnostic service never before available to Negroes in the county...