Word: duplexes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...August Butler was sure he'd win. He sold his house, moved into a $90-a-month duplex. Three weeks ago he began checking on what offices, what seat, what committees a Nebraska junior Senator might get. A week before Election Day he predicted his majority within 5,000 votes. Last week Tortoise Butler beat Hare Cochran, settled down to a brief vacation at his only hobbies: hunting, working on his farm, and playing "pitch...
...outlets for Automatic Soap Flakes. Similarly successful, Meet the Missus has attracted a million requests for a card game advertised on the program, and pulls 3,000 letters a week. Reveling in his success with the matrons, young Tommie Bartlett earns $22,000 a year, lives handsomely in a duplex apartment on Lake Shore Drive. A feature of almost every berry, corn and apple festival around Chicago, Bachelor Tommie has so far received 20 proposals of marriage, inherited $5,000 from one mike-struck listener. A little uncertain about the I. Q. of his audience ever since...
...January 1930 Katharine Brush (Young Man of Manhattan, Red-Headed Woman) and her second husband, Broker Hubert Charles Winans, moved into a fabulous Manhattan duplex apartment, with a 30-by-40-ft., two-story-high living room (which lacked nothing, said Caricaturist Covarrubias, except six or seven Cadillacs), a nine-foot painting of Author Brush. As his swan song, Architect Joseph Urban added an even more fabulous workroom-a round, soundproof, redwood-paneled tour de force resembling a swanky silo. There Katharine Brush settled down at a 15-foot semicircular desk to turn out more novels, short stories, scenarios...