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...discover the type of home desired by the average U. S. citizen, Niagara Hudson Power Corp. lately questionnaired 250,000 customers in upState New York. From plans based on a composite of 11,000 replies, the big utility will build model homes as a promotional push. Last week ARCHITECTURAL FORUM which prepared and interpreted the survey, published its findings...
...almost man for man. Against this heavier opponent, Coach Art Lane was able to field a combination that waged many sustained marches and were able to keep the fight in enemy territory for the majority of the game. With the development of a few power plays with which to push over those last few yards, this outfit should develop into a scoring team before the end of the season...
Spending Issue. Along the Nominee's four-mile route from the railroad station at Pittsburgh to Forbes Field, National League baseball park, wildly cheering crowds were lined so thick that a vanguard of 60 motorcycle policemen had frequently to push a way through the pack. When the Roosevelt procession reached the ball park, every one of its 45,000 seats was taken and some 30,000 other citizens were jammed on the field, in the aisles, outside the gates. Not since he appeared at Philadelphia last June to accept his nomination had newshawks heard anything like the roar which...
...brisk one-day session, the Convention voted to picket all tearooms employing other than Association tea-leaf readers, appeal to President Roosevelt to push repeal of state statutes outlawing fortune telling. Cried diminutive President Perota: "Legalizing fortune telling would eliminate the quacks. . . . Clairvoyants could be licensed. They would first have to show they had ability." Then for the press the convening seers prophesied: continued Recovery, a "happy" U. S. until 1941, a 4-to-3 World Series victory for the New York Yankees, re-election of President Roosevelt. At pains to be diplomatic, President Perota hedged: "But according...
...minority decisions and listening to the Woops radio hour, but he is endeared to the public by the possession of a weak stomach. Anyway, Miss Cowl is forced to spend most of play in frantic and comical efforts to break the rising momentum to which she gave the first push...