Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doing so he had sold an interest in his daily to some of the biggest fortunes in the U. S. A roll call of his paper's stockholders reads like a list of Dun & Bradstreet's AA ratings. Some of them: John Hay ("Jock") Whitney; Marshall Field III; Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.'s George Huntington Hartford II; Chewing Gum's Philip Knight Wrigley; Marion Rosenwald Stern and her brother, Lessing Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Lawyer Garrard Bigelow Winston, Under Secretary of the Treasury in Calvin Coolidge's Administration; Producer Dwight Deere Wiman...
noise, and cold. penetrating. band blares out, brassy noise. death rattling roll of drums. noise, a strident scream. angry hissing. belches of cotton smoke ... the train grates...
...Gonna Give Nobody None of My Jelly Roll (Eddie Condon; Commodore Music Shop). Unflagging attack by a good new band on a good old song...
...wrote on. Through the ceiling-high window, framing the long roll of grass, tired-green now with winter, came the faint honks of the cabs, rolling shoppers home with Christmas packages. Thousands of miles away, helmeted men squinted through bombsights; homeless families trudged despairingly through the snow...
Plywood is made by putting a big log into a peeling machine, which strips off the thin wood sheets like wrapping paper from a roll. When the sheets are cut to size, the sandwiches are made in presses which deliver squeezes up to 200 Ib. per sq. in. The San Francisco World's Fair, which accounted for 10,000,000 sq. ft. of fir plywood, used plywood 29 layers thick for parts of its Colonnade of States...