Word: sameness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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> Repealed an old requirement that lifeboats on passenger ships be so designed that one person can lower both boat-ends at the same time.
Frankie & Johnnie (Ethel Waters; Bluebird). Vocalist Waters and a gifted arrangement turn a ballad hitherto sung as funny fiddle-faddle into a tragic folk tale, with much the same quality found in Artist Thomas Benton's garish Frankie & Johnnie mural.
By the same procedure, the U.S. (enjoying a two-for-one export balance in trade with Japan) could figure that Japan:
U.S. Steel. Big Steel's stockholders heard from Chairman Edward Stettinius much the same story, minus the sugar-coating common dividend. White-haired, springy, no geranium in the profane steel business, young (aged 38) Ed Stettinius is the kind of man who looks his Corporation's troubles in...
Last month, Federal Housing Administration anticipated an increase in applications for insurance on new mortgages. But for three weeks to July 15, FHA's volume of new business (which had been up 32% from 1938) fell 10% below the $65,180,129 of applications received in the same period...