Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Legal Practice. In Warsaw, N.Y., Doctors Henry S. Martin and Thomas Thomas boarded a train. They got off 6.2 miles away at Silver Lake Junction and took another. They got off 7.7 miles away at Perry, walked 2.5 miles, teed...
...toluol (for TNT) before the Army was fully aware of its importance. By adroit bluffing, he got the Chilean Government to help knock the price of nitrates from 7½? to 4⅛? a lb. He got jute from India at his price by threatening to withhold the silver shipments that stabilized India's rupee. He got iron ore from Sweden, wangled mules from Spain. In effect, he invented modern economic warfare...
...picture is worth seeing-its great excerpts from the past are tributes to directors of genius and to a nation which, for a while, gave them a chance to work as cinema talents have seldom been permitted to work. Even in mangled form, such scenes as the silver blaze of ripe wheat and sunflowers full of struggling men, crazed horses and black explosions (in Director Alexander Dovzhenko's Shors) are still able to make any perceptive U.S. filmgoer who has seen only the best advertised native films wonder, seriously, whether he has ever seen a real moving picture before...
...Marine Corps has qualified its first parachuting chaplain. Having made the required six qualifying jumps, Chaplain (Lieut. Commander) Joseph Patrick Mannion, U.S.N., 33-year-old priest of the Pittsburgh Roman Catholic diocese, finally won his silver wings, now waits at New River, N.C. for combat service...
...Lieut. N. B. Sherry a public speaking classes will be able to say that old bromide. "Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking . . ." Lieutenant Sherry makes a point of calling on men who haven't had experience as orators, occasionally letting the silver-tongued boys show how it's done...