Word: waldorf
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...defense orders, of unexpected delays in such vital things as production of the Army Air Corps's Allison aircraft engine. But last week he sounded off. The occasion was the National Association of Manufacturers' annual convention; the place was the ballroom of Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria. In Big Bill's audience sat the heads of U. S. industry...
...wallet was turned over to the police this week, after being found in the Waldorf Cafeteria--minus the money it contained when lost. That money was intended to pay the termbill of a member of the Harvard Band, who now faces the prospect of leaving college for lack of funds...
This week ten famed newscasters from the three major networks will foregather in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria to join in an aerial storytelling bee. Wired for sound by NBC, the tale-spinners' seminar will include such lights as Raymond Gram Swing, Elmer Davis, H. V. Kaltenborn, Walter Winchell. Purpose of the broad cast: to pay tribute to Lowell Thomas on his tenth anniversary in radio...
King Cole makes his way by hitchhiking and has never had to pay a hotel bill, although he stops at the best, including the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. To cross the ocean, he has worked as a mess boy, steward, and cook. For his incidental expenses, the newsboy earns money peddling papers and writing feature articles about himself...
...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria the National Committee for Music Appreciation made two simultaneous awards: to Songwriter Irving Berlin for the outstanding composition of the year, God Bless America (originally written in 1917); to Industrialist George A. Sloan, chairman of the Metropolitan Opera Association's executive committee, for distinguished cultural service to the community...