Word: solider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chorus on Chick Webb's "Undecided" (Decca) ... Good sweet playing by the band and Bob Eberle's singing make Jimmy Dorsey's dise of his own tune "It's Anybody's Moon," successful ... Both "Mary's Idea" by Andy Kirk and "Shorty George" by Count Basie are examples of solid Kansas City swing...
...concise but comprehensive survey the author shows the all-pervasive drive of the German Auschiuss on the myriad peoples of Eastern Europe and the Balkan peninsula. The Rome-Berlin axis, by its recent conquests, forms a solid bulwark across the center of the continent. France and Britain are isolated. But the Fascist powers have not the necessary resources to carry on a lengthy European conflict. If Germany and Italy are to challenge the world, they must establish a firm hegemony over the entire area lying between the Third Reich and Russia. The chances of the creation of such a totalitarian...
...Since the published declaration of party principles at Miami some weeks ago, there remains little doubt where the sympathies of the A. F. of L. lie. By the coalition of both groups and a possible end of the split leadership, a solid New Deal vote will be turned over by labor," added Nixon...
...picture represented 55 solid balls of concrete pyramided above sandbags piled on a segment of sewer pipe. When a 1,200-pound dummy bomb (Germany has some real ones weighing 2,200 pounds) was dropped on this monument, the only thing which had to be replaced was Concrete, Ltd.'s concrete balls. Another picture showed upright tapered steel outhouses onto which a brick wall was toppled without so much as denting them. These shelters were labeled: ARP CONSOL-Suitable Shelter for Key Personnel. Non-key personnel are supposed to be hiding in cellars...
...Baptist deacon like his father. He neither smokes nor drinks, begins every stockholders' meeting with prayer, fills his annual report with remarks like: "We believe that to be successful we must build on a foundation of Character." He has also filled his annual reports with solid figures. General Shoe now has 40 retail outlets from coast to coast selling shoes in the $3 to $7.50 class. Its fiscal 1938 earnings were $647,670.15, or $1.27 per share. Current orders are the largest in its history...