Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Delmont ("Bouboule" to the French Press because of his resemblance to a fat comic strip character popular throughout France). Besson was dragged to headquarters to start serving the ten-month jail sentence that seemed about to end forever his political career...
Before a citizen can see the Frick pictures, he must call, write or telephone to a special ticket office, tell not only the day but the hour that he wishes to tour the collection. Once admitted, he must follow a special strip of green carpet from room to room, never loitering, never turning back, never sitting down. At the end of an hour he will have had brief glimpses of $50,000,000 worth of pictures and will be ejected through the same oak door through which he entered...
...week was the announcement of Pittsburgh's Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. that it planned a $35,000,000 expansion and improvement program. Fourth largest unit in the industry and the biggest family-owned .steel company in the U. S., Jones & Laughlin will spend $25,000,000 for a strip & sheet mill, enter that market for the first time. Though about $5,000,000 of a proposed $40,000,000 bond issue will be used for refunding, the balance represents one of the biggest bids for new money since the capital market started to revive...
...last week General Oreste Mariotti squinted from mule-back along the dry bed of the Ende River, a strip of boulders and gravel between mountainous shrub covered hills, blew his whistle and halted his column...
...Strip Girl (by Henry Rosendahl; L. Lawrence Weber, producer) contains some of the toughest talk heard on the Broadway stage this season, a trace of burlesque atmosphere, a strip queen (Mayo, Methot) who takes pride in her work, a loose, undigested story in 23 scenes, practically nothing else...