Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortnight ago, as it must even to cats, death came to Minnie Esso in her 16th year, her 14th as an Esso employe. Her successor, named last week: Son Esso Junior, aged three months. First day on the job, Esso Junior proved that he could fill his mother's boots. He killed a large...
...Landshut, the 16th Infantry Regiment posted a rogues gallery of all German women in the vicinity known to be infected with venereal disease. Reason: the V.D. rate for the Army in Germany had soared to 305 cases for every 1,000 soldiers-a new high...
...tapestries have not been seen in six years; many have never before been exhibited in a museum. Standout in the priceless collection is the famed 11th Century Essen Madonna, a 30-inch, gold-covered wooden statue that spent the war years in a damp tunnel. Now, in the 16th Century castle which Goebbels commandeered as a summer home, the wide-eyed Madonna sits serene in a gilded bathroom...
...proposed to change its name again. Richard King Mellon, third generation head of the Mellon family empire, announced that Union Trust planned to merge with Mellon National Bank. The new institution, to be known as Mellon National Bank and Trust Co., will give Pittsburgh its first $1 billion bank (16th largest bank in the U.S.). It also intends to give such other giants as Manhattan's Chase National and old A. P. Giannini's Bank of America some tough new competition for a bigger share of the nation's industrial loans...
...16th Century Jesuit crossed the Channel in high spirits and in the gallant disguise-according to later charges-of "a velvet hat and a feather, a buff leather jerkin and velvet Venetians." For a full year Campion rode up & down the English counties, eluding the Queen's men, saying Mass in secret in Catholic houses. The Jesuits, Waugh says, "came with gaiety among a people where hope was dead...