Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a nice sense of psychologies, both British and Italian, new First Lord Sir Samuel had spectacular "sham battles" fought at Malta during the week. Simulating Italian bombers, British planes droned over Malta for three hours. On land antiaircraft batteries belched sheets of flame. British first-aid squads dashed about the streets pretending to succor the imaginary wounded, this bit of realism being frankly copied from Germany and Japan...
Last week in Chicago one of the survivors wrote a neat chapter into radio history. Zenith Radio Corp. bought the West Side plant of defunct Grigsby-Grunow Co., whose Majestic line, and common stock, were spectacular successes just before Depression. Last week Grigsby-Grunow had been two years in bankruptcy. Its West Side plant, valued at $1,500,000, was knocked down to Zenith...
...Bowes's Capitol Theatre Family," with Bowes acting as an unctuously friendly master of ceremonies in the Roxy manner. In 1934, a veteran at the microphone, Major Bowes began an "Amateur Hour" over New York's small Station WHN. Last year, after Roxy had failed on a spectacular scale to make a go of Radio City's gigantic Music Hall, Major Bowes's hour had become Radio's No. 1 commercial broadcast, worth $7,500 a week to Standard Brands to advertise Chase & Sanborn's Coffee over 60 National Broadcasting Co. stations. Last week...
...More spectacular, though less significant, than the routine of ledger experience is NACM's fraud prevention bureau, which is entirely staffed with onetime G-men. Director Charles Joseph Scully headed the Department of Justice's bomb squad in New York for years, helped bring about the deportation of Anarchist Emma Goldman. Director Scully is very proud of his rogue's gallery of leading U. S. commercial racketeers. This type of crime is lucrative, involves no physical danger, is seldom punished with jail sentences of more than three years. Typical commercial racketeers are the Brothers Minos and Pericles...
...class of 1911 will head the huge parade, one of the most spectacular events of the week when the reunionist classes will be dressed in spectacular costumes...