Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...aspect of the circus is little less than sacred. Last week those sanctities were seriously threatened. Modernist Designer Norman Bel Geddes, who conceived General Motors' famed Futurama at the recent New York World's Fair, arrived at the Sarasota, Fla. winter quarters of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's circus to begin a two-year modernization of "The Greatest Show On Earth." Mr. Geddes quickly assured the press that nothing newfangled would be done with clowns, elephants, acrobats. He gave a few hints as to his intentions. Next year, he said, the menagerie would not be displayed...
Last week, with utmost secrecy, behind windows covered with heavy brown paper, His Majesty's High Court of Justice concluded its trials in London's most famous criminal court, the Old Bailey. Tyler Kent and Anna Wolkov heard themselves sentenced as spies. Kent was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. Anna Wolkov received ten years. Britons were surprised at the mildness of the sentences, even though one of the culprits was a citizen of a nation with which Britain wants to keep on the best of terms...
...national record was held by a boy laborer in an East Coast town who admitted 63 separate thefts. Police doubled anti-looting squads sent nightly to prowl in freshly bombed districts; magistrates doubled penalties, sometimes gave the twelvemonth maximum. More looters were held over for the Old Bailey, where sentences could be as high as death or imprisonment for life...
...previous editions, the women have been listed in a special section. Referring to the new arrangement which he instituted, David W. Bailey, publication agent, said...
...Diamond Glenn" now has 300 employes, figures his staff of engineers, geologists, drillers, roughnecks, are the best in the business. Month ago he announced his tenth discovery. Out on Bailey's Prairie, in Brazoria County, his latest gusher came in. One of the deepest low-gravity oil producers on the Coast, it was the centre of a 10,000-acre tract, all under McCarthy lease. It looked as though the Wildcat King had joined the semi-majors...