Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...certainly looks like a solid job of carpentry to a layman," Watson said, but there are places which need reinforcements." Even if fire inspectors approve the construction--with the added racing--new wiring and extension of the fire alarm system will still be needed, the Dean added...
...Marlon had a pet raccoon, but even before that, it sometimes got pretty bad. Actress Shelley Winters reports that when Marlon and Comic Wally Cox shared a Manhattan apartment, they once undertook to paint the walls of the place. Says Shelley: "They painted one wall and then, for one solid year, the canvas, the buckets of paint and the brushes lay on the living-room floor. They just stepped around them...
...powerful woman who, as everybody in the entertainment business knows, likes to think of herself as still quite youthful-looking. Said Marlon to Jessica in his silkiest tone: "Ah, this must be your mother." Columnist Hedda Hopper also went to interview him. "She talked for half an hour solid," says a Hollywood reporter, "and in all that time Marlon gave exactly one and a half grunts." He now calls Hedda "The One with the Hat," and Louella Parsons "The Fat One." The two influential lady writers naturally feel some resentment, and frequently express it in their columns...
WESTERN AIR LINES, which has climbed from near bankruptcy in 1947 to a solid ranking as the tenth biggest U.S. airline, has just completed an $11 million expansion program. Western has bought eight Douglas DC-6Bs, will put them on its luxury flights (filet mignon, champagne, orchids) along the West Coast and to the Twin Cities in hopes of adding another 50 million passenger revenue miles (1954 total: an estimated 407 million...
...needle of the scintillator began to "go crazy." Bartlett and his friends began to "go scrambled out, soon found the reason: a big granite outcropping studded with pockets of radioactive ore (autunite). When they tunneled into the mountainside, the Sunday prospectors found enough ore to give California its first solid uranium strike-and its first uranium rush...