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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1940
Page
7
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A list titled Canal Builder presents numbered clues with solutions across topics from Serene to Note in Scale. Entries cover words such as Winged shoes Social insect Prong Knot and many others including Dormouse and Africa.
Marie La Porte, a barge captain's daughter, resists social barriers as Dan Donovan, heir to wealth, pursues love. A gala encounter with Lynda Martin triggers clashes with Tommy Ryan, but Marie's honesty and Dan's resolve lead Bat and Mike Donovan to accept a novel merger of class and work. The couple vows to build a life together, even turning the Katherine into a possible future barge.
Report of Paramount extras casting for a New York Public Library set and the demand for “public-library type” readers. Late item covers Hays Office objections to The Road to Singapore dance sequence and Shirley Temple’s biographical project. Mentions Britain’s film expansion and siren ban for police sounds.
A playful public-services item lists blanked senator names for 96 U S representatives. Clues name Marvel M Logan Harry S Truman James J Davis John E Miller Morris Sheppard and others, inviting readers to fill gaps on the classified page.
A rambling collage notes studio chatter and local tastes from Hollywood. Jokes amid industry gossip mention a loan repayment to Martin Greene, a ham on the menu, and a top star's brief payday. A Midwestern visitor laments winter, a one eyed Illinois tourist hawks studio branding, and a Bunker Hill history reminder.
Dr Morris Fishbein outlines a French inspired operation to restore hearing in otosclerosis patients. The procedure opens a window in the internal ear and semicircular canals to loosen the hardened ear bones, with mixed immediate results and uncertain long term permanence due to tissue growth and repair.
Language note on common word issues and pronunciation. Today's word CESSATION defined as the act of discontinuing a stop. An example sentence illustrates the temporary end of a storm.
Answers: 1. John Paul Jones. 2. Manna. 3. Kaiser derives from Caesar. 4. Betsy Ross designed the first American flag with the five-pointed stars. 5. Pennsylvania produces half the coal mined in the United States.
A rapid roundup notes global and national spending per minute in diverse sectors. It cites New York hospital costs, traffic fines, Nazi and military expenditures, Canadian manufacturing, and daily commodity flows with various monetary figures to illustrate minute by minute activity.
A reader asks how to pick a quality broom. Advice covers straw color, brush firmness, storage off bristles, and occasional cleaning with soap suds.
The article introduces Bruehheide's book Fundamentals of Play for beginners and challenges the rule always cover an honor. It explains South's opening bid reveals high cards and demonstrates how covering an honor with an honor can lose spade tricks. It ends with a teaser for the next piece on establishing high cards quickly.
The text offers tips on staying dry by rubbing skin with petrolatum and beeswax, cleaning a kitchen sink with boiling water and washing soda, and starting a flooded engine by disconnecting the air intake to admit raw air before rejoining connections after combustion.
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