Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subcommittee last week nipped over sheet after sheet of the 66-page British plan, delegates from eight of the nations chimed "agreed, agreed" on virtually every point. Sole "No" thundered from Soviet Representative S. B. Kagan. "These new proposals," he scorned, "are only a feeble palliative. Counting of volunteers is no guarantee that they will be withdrawn...
...compromises is jazz. Though officially condemned by Nazi authorities, it has never been absolutely banned. Negro jazz bands are not permitted; swing music has been publicly damned. But records by Josephine Baker, Guy Lombardo. Victor Young, Benny Goodman, Leo Reisman are still selling in Germany, as are the sheet-music compositions of George Gershwin and Irving Berlin. And British-born "sweet" Jazzband Leader Jack Hylton recently finished a two-month engagement at one of Berlin's variety show houses...
Another small company which quickly responded to Recovery is Allegheny Steel Co. of Brackenridge, Pa., 19th in the industry. Allegheny, whose net sales were $36,500,000 last year, makes sheet and plate steel for automobiles, electrical equipment, light-weight railroad cars; has ample equipment for turning out sheet steel, needs more facilities for making bars and quality alloys. Two years ago, Allegheny merged with West Leechburg Steel Co., practically doubled its facilities...
...specious explanation of Cardinal Innitzer's actions. It is simply that ''Cardinal Innitzer has made a strong bid to head a national German episcopate," a church accountable only to Hitler. Lutheran Schroeder argues that German Protestantism has been divided and Hitler, "looking over the ecclesiastical scratch-sheet for winners," has found none among Protestants. The strongest of them, Martin Niemöller, has (according to Martin Schroeder) been dropped by his followers since his trial. Thus Hitler has turned to Catholicism, the faith in which he was baptized, and which now counts the nominal allegiance...
...stop nervous or badly trained children from wetting their beds, a habit which should cease by the age of three, Northwestern University psychologists last week recommended this device: a bed pad with negatively charged wires on one side, positively charged wires on the other, a sheet of cloth between. When the cloth becomes damp, it completes a weak electric circuit, causes a bell to ring and wake the wetter. Inventor of this ingenious device was Psychology Professor John Jacob Brooke Morgan. 49, bachelor of divinity, twice-married father of two. Chicago and Evanston, Ill. orphans were thus trained to cease...