Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nights, under mammoth silver palm trees rising toward a starry blue-silk sky, a changing trio of bands will blare out over a vast dance floor holding 5,000, spectators' stands seating 4,000, cafe sections seating 1,500. Admission is 66? on weekdays, 88? on weekends and holidays, with the partners of Service men admitted free...
...Gold & silver, banknotes, securities and precious stones can now fly on U.S. planes all the way from San Francisco to Singapore for $2.38 a pound v. 14? for parcel post. Passengers can make the trip (semimonthly flights alternate with the trip to Hong Kong) for $825 ($485 minimum by steamer). But the new 1,500-mile Manila-Singapore hop is not likely to be self-supporting for some time. In Manila everyone regards it as an extension of the U.S. diplomatic arm-right to the heart of Britain's Far Eastern trouble zone...
Protection. In Closter, N.J., after his birthday party, attended by a large number of police chiefs and detectives, Sheriff William R. Browne found someone had stolen two silver candlesticks, his birthday gift...
...that hurler John Neville offered and popped out. Had they waited Neville out, the result of the contest might have been different. Weakness in the field contributed heavily to the Yardling's sixth defeat, when they committed eight miscues, thus handing the Elis at least four runs on a silver plate...
With the U.S. spending billions for defense, radio last week dedicated a great deal of time and money for tribute. The occasion was the start of the tenth year of big-time broadcasting for silver-haired, jello-jowled Comedian Jack Benny, No.1 U.S. radio entertainer. The tribute, carefully prepared by a hard-working phalanx of publicists, was about the biggest thing of its kind radio had ever seen...