Word: filled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cars would average less than five cars apiece for each of U. S.'s 41,698 dealers. Beginning of autumn, production ran at full blast. Last week it assembled 117,805 cars (against 102,905 last year). But Chrysler Corp., after its 54-day strike, has still to fill accumulated orders and stock its dealers. This may help sustain auto assemblies, regardless of January-April retail auto sales-and auto assemblies count 5.4% in the Federal Reserve production index...
...Fill our land with peace and bliss
Last fortnight U. S. college fraternities held their annual interfraternity conference in Manhattan. The delegates had a few headaches. Fraternities found it harder these days to fill their expensive houses, make ends meet. The burgeoning of new house plans in private Eastern colleges, the current revival of dormitory building in State universities made their own houses less dazzling. At Wisconsin, dormitories had gone so far as to take over a time-honored fraternity function: they gave their boys instruction in table manners...
...screen for the first time Mary Martin, glamorous Texas strip teaser, whose song, My Heart Belongs to Daddy, was the hit of the 1938 Broadway musical season. A little skinny on the stage, Miss Martin's figure is enhanced by the tendency of the camera to fill out curves...
...coming Sophomores are making Princeton's winter sports picture a little brighter this year. All three of the teams engaged in formal league competition--basketball, hockey and swimming are counting on good newcomers to fill the gaps left by departed athletes...