Word: peale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ding-Dong, The Witch is Dead, Harold Arlen's most appealing peal from The Wizard of Oz, gets by far its best record production (verse and all) from Tenor Ralph Blane and Franklyn Mark's band (Liberty Music Shop...
...their turn, the Guildsmen motored to New Jersey, where they battered away at the carillons of Rumson and Morristown, then proceeded to the New York World's Fair, where they had a crack at the carillons in the Belgian and Netherlands pavilions. After three days of it, the 18 peal-drunk Guildsmen shook hands and staggered home to their own belfries, after the biggest U. S. carillonary jam ever...
...afternoon in late 1930 a peal of the gong brought trading on the New York Stock Exchange to a halt and President Richard Whitney mounted the rostrum to announce the suspension of J. A. Sisto & Co. for inability to meet its obligations. One morning last week a peal of the gong brought trading to a halt and Exchange Chairman Edward E. Bartlett Jr. mounted the rostrum to announce the first suspension since Richard Whitney & Co. was expelled last March. It was J. A. Sisto...
...death sentence" (section 11B) of the Act provides that once the utility holding companies have registered, SEC has the power to force simplification of any utility pyramid into a single geographically integrated system. Most commentators have expected that whatever company Bill Douglas chose to chop up first would ap peal the "death sentence" to the Supreme Court. Here, Bill Douglas was smart - he picked $303,813,000 Utilities Power & Light, which is already in 776 receivership. SEC must pass on such reorganizations anyway. Last week, Chairman Douglas jubilantly called newshawks to his office, announced that it would be unfair...
...string hanging from the runaway and pulled it to earth, not before, however, a prankster held a lighted match to the balloon's capacious belly. Members of the House were startled to see a large orange flame a la Hindenburg appear in mid-air accompanied by a small peal of thunder...