Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Nebraska's aging George W. Norris rose in the Senate and declared: "Frankly I am worried about the activities of this Bureau." What worried him were recent arrests by G-Men in Detroit of 16 persons on charges of having assisted volunteers to enlist in the Loyalist Army in Spain...
...Britain now has some 4,000,000 more mouths to feed (omitting all Irish) than in 1914. Her food imports of ?295,000,000 in 1914 rose to ?431,000,000 in 1939 while total home food production rose only from...
...chewing, fuzzy-voiced Actress Chatterton, 46, dimpled her way to fame on Broadway as Little Orphan Judy in soppy Daddy Long-Legs, kept climbing with young-girl parts in Come Out of the Kitchen, Mary Rose. Leaving Broadway in 1925, she acted for a while in San Francisco, wound up in Hollywood. There, in the early days of the talkies, she clicked as one of the few who knew how to talk. There she was as much typed for fallen women roles (Madame X, Once a Lady, Frisco Jenny) as she had been for sweet young things on Broadway. After...
Under Howard's silks and Trainer Tom Smith's care, the Biscuit rose like a popover. In 1937, as a four-year-old, he won more money ($168,580) than any thoroughbred that year. At five, when most U. S. race horses are ready to retire, the Biscuit ran anywhere & everywhere, finally clinched the title of U. S. thoroughbred champion by showing his hoofs to War Admiral in the memorable Race of the Century at Pimlico (TIME...
...going. From a comfortable $7,598,224 in 1931, profits kerplunked to a miserable $53,301 the next year. Reason: the stubbornness of President Charles Pearce (a Johnson man) in trying to hold his top-heavy volume in the face of rising distribution costs and collapsing soap prices. Up rose young (35) S. Bayard Colgate, great-grandson of the founder. Using his family's 40% ownership of the firm's stock as a lever, he booted Pearce out, took over the presidency, in one year had the company once more on an even keel...