Word: suited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bulging budget but would almost certainly bring a squawk from Secretary of State Hull, champion of reciprocal trade treaties. In addition, subsidized U. S. wheat would have to compete in the world market against wheat subsidized this year by Canada, Poland and Rumania -with other overproducers expected to follow suit...
Last week, Track Wizard Toole told his listeners to use the money they won on his tips to buy an R. B. $16.75 suit or overcoat. To each of these purchasers the sales clerk gave a silver dollar to be dropped into a box for Willie Winn. When at week's end he unlocked his box, there were 342 silver dollars for Willie. Since he is a broadcaster of uncertain habits and sudden impulses, the WAAF engineer keeps an alert finger near the control switch, ready to snap him off the air if he should start heading...
Vacationing at Manasquan, N. J., Assistant Fire Chief John Black of North Arlington was in swimming when a fire alarm sounded. In his bathing suit Chief Black dashed to the fire, climbed a ladder, entered the blazing building barefoot. Few minutes later he was carried out suffering from cuts and hotfoot...
...Angeles lawyer's office, one-time Cinemoppet Jackie (The Kid) Coogan bestowed a kiss upon the cheek of Mrs. Lillian Coogan Bernstein, his mother and bitter opponent in a law suit over his $4,000,000 estate (TIME, April 18). Mrs. Bernstein wept...
Last winter a free-lance deep-sea diver and experimenter named Max Nohl had himself lowered 420 ft. to the bottom of Lake Michigan, thus making the world's deepest dive to date in a diving suit (TIME, Dec. 13).* In so doing, Max Nohl conclusively showed the value of a helium-oxygen mixture for deep diving. Helium is a light gas, requires little effort to inhale. It also seems to forestall that bugbear of divers, "the bends" (gas bubbles in the blood...