Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...windy. As the motorcade entered the cemetery, the 21-gun presidential salute from three 755 boomed out over the Virginia hills. After a minute of silent prayer, each of the three men laid a wreath of chrysanthemums on the marble sarcophagus of the Unknown Soldier. Taps sounded, and the roll of muffled drums. There were no speeches...
...triumph-and his comeuppance-Wisconsin-born Author Heth has made a fast-moving short novel. His slightly lopsided characters look startlingly real in the smoky, harshly lit room where little Bergson sweats over, a two-bit bet and a stranger's trembling hands stake $8000 on one roll of the dice...
...Champion. In its Middletown, Ohio plant, Aeronca Aircraft Corp. has already reached its prewar production rate of a two-place, high-winged monoplane, the Champion. Price: $2,095. Aeronca expects to roll out 550 planes by the end of this year, hopes to have production up to 500 ships a month by next April...
...Roll Out the Bank. The Schult Corp. delivered to Paul C. Thurston, president of Maine's Rumford Falls Trust Co., a blue and grey bank-on-wheels. Thurston will do a roving banking business within a go-mile radius of his Rumford Falls bank. The 23-ft. trailer is equipped with a cashier's counter, a teller's cage, a private office, and a stout safe...
With a loud roll on the drums, RCA-Victor last week put on the market its first non-breakable phonograph records. Made of a ruby-red, translucent vinyl resin plastic, they cost twice as much ($2 a record) as a 12-inch Victor Red Seal. Cried Victor: "The greatest improvement . . . in 45 years...