Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week hardworking, hearty Painter Fiene finished his most ambitious job: two murals for the auditorium of Manhattan's Central High School of Needle Trades. Biggest uninterrupted murals in the U. S. (17 ft. by 65 ft. each), they teem with 200-odd overneat, idealized figures (53 portraits), tracing the history of the needletrades industry, from immigrant and sweatshop to labor unions and built-in swimming pools...
...Buenos Aires, some 200 Nazi toughs packed the Renacimiento Theatre for the showing of a German propaganda film, The Siegfried Line. They did not know that 100-odd young Argentine hotbloods. mostly athletes and amateur boxers, had also decided to see The Siegfried Line that night. When the Nazis began shouting "Heil Hitler!" the natives responded with "Abajo Hitler!" and a barrage of jumbo firecrackers. The lights went on, women screamed, and the Argentines systematically went to work on the Hitlerites. Police who tried to break up the melee had their clubs snatched and used on the Germans. Two score...
Nowadays Transradio Press serves some 175 U. S. radio stations and 50-odd U. S. newspapers. It also has 35 Canadian broadcasting outlets. Fortnight ago, in Ottawa's House of Commons, Transport Minister Clarence Howe announced that Canadian Broadcasting Corp. had canceled the licenses of two foreign-owned news agencies : Transradio Press and British United Press (a U. P. subsidiary). Speaking of Transradio only he said...
...rabbity air mask tremendous keenness and big-league ability. Mr. Nelson, executive vice president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., will be the Government's purchasing agent, will be the knuckles and fist of the entire coordinating committee. To organize the Government invasion of industry, by aligning the 240-odd Federal bureaus with the committee's efforts: William H. McReynolds, 61, dry, withery, counsel-keeping White House assistant who knows better than any living man the labyrinthine network of agencies within the Government...
...Catholics publish 330-odd newspapers and magazines, with a total circulation of more than 7,000,000. Many owned by dioceses, with editorial staffs appointed by and directly responsible to bishops and archbishops, they range from Father Coughlin's Social Justice to the liberal Michigan Catholic to the conservative New York Catholic News (circulation: 229,000, 40,000, 55,000 respectively...