Word: ans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Police described the killing as a well-planned, professional job. They found evidence that Touhy had been under surveillance from a basement in an apartment house across the street almost from the day he was released. His movements and habits were well known by his killers. "I don't...
Down in Number. Lewis' most forward-looking contribution to the U.S. was his acceptance of labor-saving machinery for an industry that was in decline. In the teeth of competition from natural gas and oil, Lewis wrote the contracts to help the coal owners, came out unequivocally for automation...
Early one morning last week, when the other valley towns were canopied with lights and tinsel, a big trailer truck lumbered past the great farms, turned into the chuckholed sandy roads of the drab alkali flat, and deposited its cargo on an empty lot. Ragged children and rheumy old men...
After all the tumult of Asia, Dwight Eisenhower stepped out of his special train onto an enormous red carpet in Paris' Gare de Lyon to a reception correct in its pomp but cool in the reserve visible in the face of Charles de Gaulle. Despite their old acquaintance and...
With the outspoken support of the British (who did not want to share a favored position) and the smaller NATO powers (who did not want to be further left out), the U.S. ignored De Gaulle's proposals. Partly to put pressure on Washington, partly because he is convinced that...