Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This will be followed by a year's course in primary and advanced flight training at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, where candidates will be enrolled as aviation cadets...
...received more requests for it than for any other number. So did Bandmaster Ozzie Nelson at Manhattan's Lexington Hotel. Both NBC and Columbia broadcasting chains, at death grips with the potent music publishers, announced that the tune, which was unrestricted, was the most popular on the air. Station WHN played it 28 times on one all-night broadcast in answer to 428 appeals. Station WBNX prepared to broadcast the song in Yiddish, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, German, Polish, Ukranian, Greek, Negro dialect, Irish brogue and pig-Latin. In dance halls, cinemansions. night clubs the nation reeled in vertigo...
...currency to secure these letters and to break up this infatuation. From time to time since that date, I have had to use special means for blocking what seemed to be infatuations on the part of Ann. Mostly these have occurred with men in uniform, regardless of their station." Back across the continent, from San Francisco, Daughter Hewitt snapped : "Mother has always felt that way about men in uniform, so naturally she expected me to. ... I was really forced to leave school because the fast conduct of my mother was open gossip. I could not gain entrance to good...
...ghost is Murdoch Glourie (Robert Donat), a frivolous young shade whose dour father orders him to haunt Glourie Castle in Scotland as penance for an act of characteristic levity committed during the 18th Century. Packed off to fight the English, young Glourie so far disgraces his station as to be killed while hiding behind a powder keg to avoid being thrashed by members of the rival clan of MacLaggan...
...along the Chicago River, he built the Merchandise Mart. It is two blocks long and a block deep, cost Marshall Field & Co. some $30,000,000. Completed in Depression, it looked at first like a great Depression error. New York was the buyer's Mecca, Chicago a way-station. But Depression helped as well as hindered. To most buyers Chicago was much nearer than New York, and the convenience and economy of finding so many merchandising eggs in one basket soon made itself evident. In 1933, 104,000 buyers spent $137,000,000 at the Mart. In 1934 there...