Word: drops
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Carlos Guillermo Dávila is a Chilean newspaperman who became an Ambassador, once (in 1932) served for three months as President of Chile. When Chilean Army airmen threatened to drop bombs on the President's palace, Dávila resigned. He has lived in Manhattan ever since...
Even the Greek shortage of artillery, particularly heavy guns, was turned to advantage. They dragged their light mountain pieces over rough trails and got into position where they could drop shells on Italians who could not see them. The effectiveness of these tactics was immense. Proud of their artillery, the Greeks thought it was an immense good omen when Përmet fell on the feast day of Saint Barbara, patroness of artillerymen...
...show the fine melodic sense that produced Cherokee ... Ray McKinley's fireworks take the spotlight on Will Bradley's Lonesome Road (COLUMBIA). If you like flash drums you can't go wrong on this ... Latest Columbia reissues feature a Duke Ellington album, which includes classics like Drop Me Off At Harlem and Lazy Rhapsody, plus an article on the Duke by John Hammond, who is billed as "America's Greatest Jazz Authority." They're wrong, he's the second greatest. I'm the greatest ... Bela Bartok's Contrasts For Violin, Piano, and Clarinet, features Bartok, Szigeti, and Benny Goodman. This...
...stanchest Willkiemen, blond, conservative Fabricator C. Donald Dallas of Revere Copper and Brass, Inc. On the very September day that Wendell Willkie spoke against low copper prices in Anaconda's Butte, Fabricator Dallas spoke for a 12? ceiling in order to head off an inflationary spiral. He advised dropping the tariff altogether when the price got above 12?. Below 9?, he would restore it in full. For each 1? drop below 12?, he would restore 1? of protection, so that the price would be stabilized between...
...silence Wall Street suffered when the rival Chicago Stock Exchange added one hour to its trading period, thus got a bigger share of the nation's stock trading. New York has pondered adding an hour to trading, rejected it because many afternoon papers might drop their financial pages if closing prices came any later...