Word: fifteen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...union is not only shady--it is dictatorial. Controlling all the Boston theatres except the Repertory, which now shows only movies, it forces producers to accept its inordinate demands, or get out. As an instance, sets being shifted from the Colonial to the Plymouth, separated by a fifteen foot alley, have to be brought to the door by one set of stagemen and put into trucks by special loaders; a second group of loaders then takes the scenery out of the trucks, and gives it to a second set of stagemen. Also, non-union orchestra men or conductors...
...leading players took time off for a little "rest" when they rushed over to Station WBZ for a fifteen minute broadcast of five scenes from the play. Half an hour after they came off the air, they were all reassembled on the stage, and from then until nearly dawn the 175 members of the cast, plus a number of technicians, went through the whole play twice...
...squad has been cut down to fifteen, and unfortunately there is no place to give seasoning to the men who had to be cut. There is no Jayvee team, and with its abolition last spring went its coach, Johnny Wood. The sacrifice in player talent has not been important but Fesler has his hands full with his enlarged Varsity squad every afternoon...
...tables in question cover the fifteen years 1920-34, giving three values each month for the intensity of solar radiation as observed in many parts of the world, and averaged. The observations are of the amount of radiation received in calories per minute per square centimeter at right angles to the sun. The overall average for the 15 year period was 1,9410 calories per square centimeter per minute or about 2 horse-power per square meter...
...Fifteen years after Wilhelmina ascended the throne World War I began. The British blockade induced a grave food shortage. Trade was completely disrupted and the country was overrun with refugees. Dutch ships were sunk and by 1918 what ships still floated abroad had been seized by the Allies. Only bright spots on The Netherlands' horizon were that: 1) although the Germans considered invading the country, they eventually decided against it, partly because the Dutch had effectively remodeled their land defenses, partly because Germany, already at the Belgian Channel ports, had money and used it to buy supplies in neutral...