Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Power launched an all-out attack on Britain's 28 million-odd cherished open fireplaces. The filthy things, said the report, not only waste coal and give no heat, but definitely bring on lung diseases. * Recommended: central heating with gas, electricity or "other systems that burn smokeless, solid fuel...
...Priestley, solid Briton of letters, and tiny Minister of Education Ellen C. Wilkinson were separately moved to loud tuts by a Hollywood importation...
Episcopal Departure. New York's Episcopalian Bishop, the Right Reverend William T. Manning, may sometimes have looked to laymen like a U.S. Archbishop of Canterbury, but he is too solid a churchman to make that mistake himself. * His unerring knowledge of the rules and his uncompromising adherence to them have been the admiration of his close subordinates and the discomfiture of his Episcopalian antagonists. Bishop Manning has almost always been right. That rigid position has not endeared him to his opponents-or to the public; his vigilant guardianship of orthodoxy has often made New York's Bishop look...
...Pegler, Theodore Dreiser, Silas Bent, Herbert Bayard Swope, et al.) came & went. A little (125 Ibs.) man with unruly grey hair, a too-big nose and a small mustache, he is proud that he never had to take a drink or buy one to get a story. As a solid senior citizen of Lebanon, Ill., he sings a raspy bass in the Methodist choir, is a trustee of small McKendree College, writes editorials for his son's Webster Groves News-Times. He always carries a beat-up briefcase that holds his evening paper, his notes, a set of brushes...
...plan, 1946 profits will probably be eaten up by the $7,000,000 which Douglas expects to spend to develop the DC-8 "Mix-master." To make matters worse, in Donald Douglas' characteristically gloomy view, no one has yet ordered any Mix-masters. Stockholders were not so worried: solid, conservative Douglas Aircraft Co. spends no big money without getting a good airplane to sell...