Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pretender had some solid grounds for hope-Don Juan of Bourbon, 31, only non-hemophilic son of Spain's late ex-King Alfonso XIII. From his Swiss villa on Lake Geneva, where he will stay until the skiing season opens, the Infante made it known that he was against "totalitarian policies," was "calmly and confidently" waiting for a call to Madrid. He had reason. Britain might right royally welcome a monarch in that bulwark of Empire, Spain...
Ruby Newman and the boys will shake the Parker House again with their solid notes and all midshipmen are asked to really get behind the dance and push it to top success. All junior officers are cordially invited to be with us. Treasurer Sam Nikkel has announced that tickets are now on sale at two dollars a couple with a date bureau to be set up soon in connection with the various girl's schools...
Manhattan's piles of steel and stone, its solid brownstone houses stood firm, but the city's intricate, antlike pattern of existence failed. The hurricane moaned between skyscrapers in 95-mile-an-hour gusts. Water crept into the subways and trains stalled; thousands of people stayed in downtown buildings, watching the storm crash through the stone canyons. Up & down Long Island and through Westchester County huge old trees were uprooted bodily, usually falling south...
...will be biologically possible for our grandchildren to live in good health for 130 years, said Theodore G. Klumpp, president of Winthrop Chemical Co. The secret: new life-saving drugs. Demanding more solid spending on medical research, he declared: "We have been attacking concrete fortifications with popguns...
...years, solid, hard-headed Philip Gustav Johnson, president of the Boeing Aircraft Co., did his best to take the romance out of aviation. But he never forgot the romantic characters of aviation's past. When the Army allowed the company to use a Flying Fortress for wartime business he picked George Willingham, a tiny, aging, ex-air-mail pilot, to fly it. Last week the plane, nicknamed The Drone, carried the pair from Seattle to Washington, D.C., a trip which had become routine since Johnson began mass production of the huge B-29 Superfortresses...