Word: afterwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ambitious men moved in, capable of trying to dominate the entire Comstock. One was a cold little bank manager named Sharon. One of his exploits was the "Hale & Norcross corner" in 1868, by which he got control of an important mine. When production declined and stock shares fell soon afterward, Sharon resorted to a common technique: he sold most of his stock to avoid paying stock assessments, knowing that he could buy it back cheap when new ore was uncovered. At this point Mackay and his partner Jim Fair, as a gamble, began their own raid on Hale & Norcross...
Quarterback Kevin Reiliy came in for Ed Stearns at the half and sustained a concussion almost immediately. He played out the half without realizing his injury, however, but didn't remember the game afterward. Halfback Carl Bottenfield left the game after the first period, also with a concussion...
...Afterward, Attlee met a miners' committee, including Mine Union Boss Arthur Homer, a Communist whose first loyalties might not belong to his country in crisis (TIME, July 28). Attlee pleaded: would the miners work an extra half hour daily, or an extra half day weekly? The men from the mines agreed-if the Government promised not to revoke the newly granted five-day week...
...sleigh, two boys went along, whipping the horses through the big drifts. It was an emergency surgery case. Operating on his patient on a farmhouse kitchen table, by the light of kerosene lamps, Dr. Heise was glad to have his rugged sons on hand as assistants. Driving home afterward, they talked over the operation...
...under pressure from the Nazis, Carol and Magda had to flee Rumania. Afterward, Magda Lupescu's villa was opened to the public-at 10? admission...