Word: strings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...luxe "camping" on the beach is this season's big fad on the once-again-prosperous French Riviera. One hotel leased an entire island, which it promptly covered with tents. Another, at fashionable Cap d'Antibes. has put up tents in its gardens, erected a string of midget-sized bungalows on its beach. Despite the spacious comfortable hotel rooms only a few yards away, diplomats, statesmen, cinema celebrities have preferred to live like beachcombers in abodes which for the most part lack plumbing, hot water, screens...
...accounts, and one of them had transactions in the first six months of 1937 totaling 39,000,000 bu. of wheat, 11,000,000 bu. of corn and 39,000 bales of cotton; 15 lost money for a majority of their clients, one was on relief, another had a string of gambling houses...
...have used his system and reached the astounding figure of .0044°. One reason for this is that the Leyden researchers work with magnetic fields up to 27,600 gauss (magnetic units), whereas Dr. Giauque must get along with 8,000 gauss until his university finds the money to string bigger power lines into his lab oratory. Another reason is that Giauque does not regard the pursuit of absolute zero as a competitive stunt, but as a means of studying entropy, and for this purpose the region within a degree of the zero is cold enough. Such study...
When Hamilton-Brown was in its heyday 20 years ago, Willie Collins was inking leather and going to night school. In one factory and another, he later became assistant foreman, superintendent. Five years ago, while Hamilton-Brown was enjoying a brief respite between losses. Shoemaker Collins took a shoe string of $1,500 which he had saved, and with a young shoe designer named Edward W. Morris, founded Collins-Morris Shoe Co. at Marine, Mo. (capacity: 400 pairs of children's shoes a day). Six weeks later, with a bank balance of $22 and a $300 payroll to meet...
...Monarchist organization Renovatión Española. He had been taken from his Madrid apartment by uniformed Assault Guards of the Spanish Government, delivered dead to a cemetery caretaker. Sensing a big story, knowing that armed guards were patrolling Spanish cities, newshawks in Paris woke up string correspondents along the Spanish border, put in a call to Oran, in French Morocco. At 1:30 a. m. Madrid suddenly came through with a seven-word official statement: "The Government is master of the situation." These words were the first intimation to the outside world that revolt had broken...