Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gershwin at Half-Stance. The orchestra members took the jolts and hard wooden seats good-naturedly, joked as they steered clear of roadside minefields, gazed across 2½ miles of sand at Egypt's main base, Gaza...
Died. Fred Niblo, 74, pioneer movie director (Ben Hur, Blood and Sand) and co-founder of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences; of pneumonia; in New Orleans...
Despite Dr. Müller's surprise, DDT's place in preventive medicine is secure. It kills the mosquitoes that carry malaria, the flies that carry cholera, the lice that carry typhus, the fleas that carry the plague, the sand flies that carry kalaazar and other tropical diseases. Because of DDT, the tropics are becoming safer places to live; because of it typhus was no serious threat in World...
...proprietor of a chain of optical shops, has provided Mexico City with some of its best corridas in years. Sunday after Sunday, five unknown 18-year-old novilleros have pulled crowds that filled the Plaza Mexico's 50,000 seats. Last week aficionados roared with delight, carpeted the sand of the bullring with flowers, when young Rafael Rodriguez-earned ears and tail for the sixth successive Sunday...
...Truman climbed into a limousine, drove to the White House, changed from a grey fedora to a sand-colored sombrero, got back into the limousine and was driven to National Airport, where he joined Lovett and others in the reception committee for Marshall. The Secretary's plane had been circling overhead for ten minutes, waiting word that the President had arrived. The plane set down. A tired, ashen-faced, 68-year-old George Marshall alighted, smiling wanly. A grinning Mr. Truman greeted...