Word: turning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While quick-thinking Police Clerk Dwyer announced to Washington newshawks that his newly famed wife had placed the bet for an undisclosed friend to whom she had to turn over her winnings, the two women went into hiding to avoid salesmen and reporters...
Cyrano von Grofe was kept so busy writing out other people's music that he seldom got a chance to write any of his own. But from time to time he did turn out an orchestral piece in conservative jazz style. Most were more notable for their expert workmanship than for sizzling licks or hip-wrenching tunes...
...meet the demands of Lord Beaverbrook, workmen last week finished turning a former corset factory into a new and larger "Black Glass House"* in the great industrial city of Manchester, 189 miles northwest of London. Costing just under $1,000,000, the new Manchester plant will continue to turn out at least ten of the multiform editions of the Express, which is printed simultaneously in three cities (London, Manchester, Glasgow) so it can arrive in every corner of the British Isles along with its readers' breakfast muffins...
...agreements came from textile manufacturers in New England, farmers in Old England. Because concessions to English producers of finer cotton goods and woolens would probably hurt New England's none-too-flourishing textile industry, Governor George D. Aiken of Vermont cracked: "It looks like a plan to turn New England into a solely recreation area." On the other hand, British farmers complained because Britain, already the principal outlet for U. S. farm goods, abolished duties on U. S. wheat, corn (except flat white), lard, certain canned fruits and fruit juices, and reduced by as much as one-third...
...turn, the newspapermen expect by this arrangement to become more intimate with members of the Faculty teaching in the fields in which they specialize. Thus, the eight have selected the House which best represents their interests...