Word: walnuts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walnut-paneled room in Washington, the Civil Aeronautics Board opened preliminary meetings last week to see if National Airlines, Inc. should be put out of business. The case for dismemberment was strong last year: hit by a ten months' strike and hurt by CAB's grounding of all DC-6s, National lost almost half its passenger traffic, turned in a $1,946,041 deficit in 1948. But last week, National's President George T. ("Ted") Baker was hardly acting like a man who expected to shut up shop. He announced that he would launch a new, luxury...
...twelve correspondents were gathered around Ross's big walnut desk. "Close the doors," said Ross. "Nobody is leaving here until everybody has this statement." Then he passed out copies of a mimeographed handout. Merriman Smith of the United Press was first to read enough to catch the gist: "Evidence . . . atomic explosion . . . U.S.S.R." Whistling in surprise, he edged for the door...
Says Albright: "We don't hit for the literary type of the booklover in spite of all our walnut paneling. There are so few of them we'd starve to death in no time." Albright, known in the trade as the "corn salesman," once heard a bookseller complain to a publisher that nothing was being published for the thinking man. Said Albright: "I told them that the average man . . . couldn't read anything but corn and what we needed was more corn...
...that ever came to Kansas City. He had seen the Four Cohans and Eva Tanguay, he remembered. And he used to be an usher every Saturday afternoon at the Grand and see the shows free. "Where was the Grand?" a Kansas City Star reporter asked. Down at Seventh and Walnut, said Truman. "Gosh," said the reporter, "we'll have to put up a plaque there tomorrow...
Stargel, Bob Norman of 1014 Poplar Street, Cincinnati; Walnut Hills High, Cincinnati. Vensas, Victor Vance of 1322 East 115 Street, Cleveland; East High, Cleveland. Vickery, Thomas Glenn of 528 West Stevenson Street, Gibsonburg; Gibsonburg High. Weiss, Sanford Ronald of 12712 Iowa Avenue, Cleveland; Glenville High, Cleveland. Williamson, Billy James of Route 2, Hillsboro; Jackson Local School, Belfast...