Word: usual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual elaborate fish-catching methods all fail with the banana fish...
...casino at Zoppot. Thousands played on the gloriously white sands or swam in the cool waters of Danzig Bay. Up in the heavily wooded section south of the city, picnicking still went on. Couples promenaded on Danzig's patrician avenues lining the canals. City Hall was open as usual and the Nazi-operated radio station invited listeners to "come and see Danzig and spend your summer holidays here...
...closely on the construction of others in Navy Yards. The Navy found that operations of the air valve and ballast tanks could be interlocked for safety. But it also found that the machinery would be so bulky as to decrease a submarine's combat value, therefore decided (as usual in submarine designing) that military necessity came first...
...half-a-dozen U. S. cities last week, hundreds of people walked into newspaper offices, walked out again with armsful of symphonic phonograph records. The records cost them, not the usual $1.50 or $2 per disk, but about 50?. And they were good: staple works of Schubert, Beethoven, Tschaikowsky, etc. But what orchestras performed them, what company recorded them, was not revealed on the label...
...town. The Record was the first Philadelphia paper to sign a contract with the Newspaper Guild; the rest have followed. Record men have fun, fight the Inquirer tooth & nail for scoops. The night Huey Long was dying both papers waited for the final flash until long after the usual Sunrise edition deadline. Finally the Record staff turned out all the lights in the building. Soon the Inquirer lights, a few doors up the street, went off and the Inquirer's, staff went home. Ten minutes later came word of Huey's death. Back on went the Record lights...