Word: tilling
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Easy Aces. Whatever happened, it looked like the end of Lescot's political career. His impenetrable affability had been equal-till last week-to all occasions. A suave dictator behind a constitutional façade, chubby, pleasure-loving Elie Lescot had always paid his way with charm. As Ambassador to the U.S.. his easy style of living almost got him into trouble. When his Government sent him $60,000 for arms purchases, he squandered $35,000 before a gun was bought, was saved only by a check from Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo...
Died. Harry von Tilzer (real name: Harry Gumm), 73, dear old daddy of Tin Pan Alley (which he named), writer of such dear old songs as I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl, A Bird in a Gilded Cage, In the Evening by the Moonlight, Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie, first to publish Irving Berlin and George Gershwin; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...program opened with the dreamy old song, Won't You Wait Till the Cows Come Home, accented by the tinkle of a cowbell and the recorded moo of a Jersey heifer. It closed with a gooey, sentimental ballad called Contented, sung by a weepy-voiced tenor ("I'm on heaven's own doorstep, so contented with you"). Between the moo and the mush, the Carnation Milk Co. poured out a half hour of semi-classical music as thick and sweet as its product. To keep its Contented Hour flowing smoothly, Carnation also hired such big names...
...passed since Wall Street was entertained by the neck & neck race between National City Bank's Charles Mitchell and Chase National Bank's Albert Wiggin for the title of the nation's biggest bank. Chase won out, via mergers with other banks, and held its lead till three months ago. Then a brash West Coast upstart, old A. P. Gian nini's Bank of America, pushed past...
...Manhattan bankers sniffed a trend. They suspected that the currency in circulation, which has almost tripled since 1941, may have reached its peak. But the Federal Reserve Bank was not willing to do any predicting. It was well aware that the peak after World War I was not reached till...