Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Thomas Graham McNamee, radio announcer and Universal Newsreel "Talking Reporter"; by Mrs. Josephine Garrett McNamee; in Manhattan. Mrs. McNamee testified she peeked through a bedroom window, saw her husband with another woman...
Curtis Companies Inc., whose carpenters can turn out 3,000 doors and 6.000 window-frames...
...useful. Analysts get the spectra by striking the material with cathode rays until x-rays flash off. If the material can be put in a vacuum tube the process is comparatively easy. Otherwise the cathode rays must be shot out of the vacuum tube through a very thin metal window into the open air, and then upon material to be examined. This is exceedingly difficult to accomplish. Air tends to dissipate and absorb cathode rays before they can strike x-rays from anything. Dr. Gorton Rosa Fonda exhibited a stubby, 12-in. tube which produces an extraordinary amount of cathode...
...reaching Bucharest, M. Titulescu hurried to lunch with King Carol. Suddenly there were screams as of a man in mortal terror. Rushing to the window His Majesty & Guest saw a three-story scaffolding set up against the Royal Palace collapse, saw a workman mad with terror plunge to death...
Died. Edward Foster Swift, 68, board chairman of Swift & Co. (meat packing); killed instantly in a fall from a window of his apartment which he had apparently thrown open after breakfast; in Chicago. His waiting chauffeur witnessed the headlong plunge. Though his brother Charles Henry first announced that Packer Swift had been in poor health, had been planning an immediate European vacation, he later stated his brother "had been in his usual good health and spirits. . . . His affairs are in excellent condition." Packer Swift's son said: "Father was always insisting on fresh air." Second of the six able...