Word: size
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usually well informed embassies heard that when Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Foreign Minister, arrived in Berlin Sunday he conveyed a conciliatory peace plan which Premier Benito Mussolini had evolved. It provided for recreation of an independent Poland of restricted size to be guaranteed by all the great European powers instead of by Germany and the Soviet Union alone...
...just have to look at Vern Miller to see a good share of the reason why he rates a first team tackle berth. Vern's 250 pounds are far from all fat. While Vern may still have a few tricks and intricacies of the game to learn, his size and surprising speed will give considerable consternation to opposing linemen...
Last week, its Abingdon season over, the Barter Theatre paid its third annual visit to Manhattan. In chain-store-fed Manhattan there were nine cash customers to one barterer. But the box office accepted a gallon of wine, tubes of toothpaste, some rayon underwear, size 36 and from Drama Critic John Anderson "a jugful of the milk of human kindness neatly skimmed." All these swelled a trifle the season's profits: $95, five barrels of jelly...
...ends: 1) assembly lines reduce the proportionate need for skilled workmen, 2) it rapidly steps up the industry to meet possible wartime needs of the U. S. Some experts calculate the combat life of a warplane at 30 days, which means that soon after a war starts the size of a nation's air force would be the monthly capacity of its factories. Last week plants like Martin and Lockheed were hiring men as fast as they could be interviewed. They were not greatly worried about a shortage of skilled mechanics because army and civilian schools were turning them...
...Size of University Static...