Word: hell
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Germany became a debtor's paradise, a creditor's hell. Real-estate owners, big landlords, industrialists paid off loans and mortgages for a song; small savers, insurance holders, widows & orphans, whose inheritances had been invested in "safe" State bonds, were wiped out overnight...
...Hotel New Yorker and National Hotel Management Co., Inc. (seven hotels); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Best-known of U. S. hotelmen, Ralph Hitz overwhelmed his customers with services, operated under the motto: "Give 'em value and you get volume." His employes' version: "We contact the hell...
...Onyx Club has closed and it looks like for good. . . . Sonny Dunham of Casa Loma fame, starting another band again. . . . Not content with raising general hell with the Metropolitan Opera and its "great gold curtain," blind pianist Alee Templeton has just developed a fifteen tone scale. The only instrument he can find which it will work on is an old zither, so unfortunately his invention is a bit limited...
Report. Evenly divided between discussion of Fascists and Communists, made up of 15,000 well-chosen words, the report had not a line to justify the hell & damnation that preceded it. It began: "Every modern democratic nation is confronted by two pressing problems. The first is the preservation of the constitutional liberties which their people have gained through the years of struggle, the second is the problem of adjusting their economic life to the difficulties of the machine age. . . ." Although rival groups seek power and influence by exploiting economic distress, attempting to undermine democracy, main problem in combating them...
Gene Autry is no stranger to radio. He twanged his first radio ballad over KVOO in Tulsa in 1928, for nothing. Hollywood tapped him in 1934 to start a movie career that no other hell-for-leather guitar plunker has ever equaled...