Word: closing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exhausted." But a Russian engineer in Berlin cleared up the whole thing in a speech at the House of Soviet Culture. The moving of mountains is still only the wish of the Soviet people and not an accomplishment, he conceded. But, he added, "since wishes and reality lie close together in the Soviet Union, one can expect the execution of the project in a short while...
After holding the confusing scraps of paper for two years after Bartok's death, his executor handed them over to Bartok's close friend and fellow composer Tibor Serly, who had earlier spent four months of skull-cracking labor trying to decipher the piece. Serly later said: "No man ever had such a task in his life . . . In order to finish this work as Bartok would have finished it, I had to put myself in a dead man's mind." Serly completed the score for viola (after rejecting the notion of adapting it for the more popular...
...month was replaced by a cocktail lounge grossing $2,000 a day. Employee locker space was centralized, making space for 50 additional rooms. In Hilton's first year, the Palmer House's operating profit rose $1,300,000 to $4,321,000. Hilton's men keep close tabs on food & beverages, figure that they saved $100,000 last year by careful menu-planning, and this year have spent $215,000 improving dining facilities in the Dayton Biltmore, alone. (In the Stevens, they discovered that only two orders for finnan haddie had been placed in one month...
Although General Tunner was looking into the future, the Air Force already had two planes which come close to filling his bill. One of them, the Douglas Globemaster II (C-124), made its first test flight last week. It can carry 50,000 Ibs., has clamshell doors in its nose big enough to drive a truck through. It falls short mainly in its range, 1,500 miles...
John Rockwell was again high scorer for the varsity with 25 points, but he was handcuffed by a tight Navy defense in the first half. The Middies concentrated on close man-to-man guarding and their passing was fast and accurate they scored effectively from the outside. Two minutes from the start of the game they had picked up a seven point lead...