Word: washington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington's Wardman Park Hotel, Cordell Hull had "no special festivities" (but a flock of telegrams from the world's great) on his 78th birthday, his first outside Maryland's Bethesda Naval Hospital in four years...
...Washington after the pound devaluation, Pella had negotiated to convert into gold some of Italy's dollar reserves, accumulated through exports by Italy's hard-working industry. The U.S. had sold him the gold at $35 an ounce (the open market price in Italy is about $50). Gold now backs 17% of Italy's currency. Technically, the difference between gold reserves and dollar reserves is not great, but psychologically Pella's stroke worked. Impressed, the Chamber of Deputies gave the government a two-to-one confidence vote...
Justice William O. Douglas, 50, enjoying one last ride in Washington's Cascade Mountains before going back to work at the Supreme Court, stopped to tighten a slipping saddle girth. When he tried to remount, the horse reared, threw him and rolled on him; then Douglas slid and sprawled down 50 feet of rocky slope. Injuries: 13 broken ribs and a puncture of one lung...
...Alfred Maurer painted the attenuated young women with bedroom eyes, the wraiths of young shop girls and waitresses whom he met on inexpensive summer vacations up the Hudson. There, above the Victorian opulence of his father's rooms, he brooded over the composition of abstractions such as George Washington...
Color-TV hearings before the Federal Communications Commission in Washington got down to figures last week. Radio Corporation of America's Elmer W. Engstrom. vice president in charge of research, cautiously estimated that color converters for present black & white receivers would cost from...