Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spectacular finish to their campaign, Dupont supporters borrowed a Cadillac limousine from the grandmother of one of their number, prevailed upon a Yale freshman to impersonate their candidate, and appropriated Widener's steps for a formal ribon cutting ceremony and rally Tuesday...
Around the World in 80 Days. Producer Mike Todd, with the help of Jules Verne, 46 stars and $6,000.000, has created the most spectacular travelogue ever seen on the screen (TIME...
...acts, John E. Wulp's The Saintliness of Margery Kempe is a fairly amusing comedy. It relates the adventures of a fourteenth-century English housewife who, smitten with a sense of her high destiny, decides to set out upon a career of spectacular wickedness. This career, which involves the management of a brewery, comes to nothing because her beer is terrible, and so Margery alters her plans. She determines to become a saint, an ambition which is fulfilled after she performs the accredited miracle of surviving unscathed the collapse of a church. Thus far the playwright is on safe ground...
...most spectacular drop of all was in steel scrap (No. 1 heavy grade), which tumbled from a record high of $65.17 the week of Dec. 13 to $53.80 in just seven weeks. The worst fall since 1949, it brought a loss of as much as $12 a ton for some grades of scrap. But steel-scrap men were not panicked. They explained that the skyrocketing in scrap prices, caused by tremendous export and domestic orders, had brought out an unprecedented amount of scrap, flooding the market. (The state of New York had also helped: a new law requiring rigid examination...
Around the World in 80 Days. Producer Mike Todd, with the help of Jules Verne, 46 stars and $6,000,000, has created the most spectacular travelogue ever seen on the screen (TIME...