Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crime cleanup. But the police turned up little except neighborhood rumor: a man named Ted Marcinkiewicz had threatened to hold up Vera's speakeasy. By Dec. 22, when detectives went to see a thick-lipped, black-haired youth named Joe Majczek, the case seemed to be falling apart...
...Overtime. While the plant came apart around him, quiet, durable, skilled mechanic Emil Koch, 39, went right on working on the last of the big searchlights he would help build for the Navy. He was used to tumult...
Suddenly, at the No. 5 elevator of the Saskatchewan Pool Terminal, Ltd., where the Sonora was loading, a pillar of flame shot 300 ft. skyward. There was an earth-shaking roar, heard several miles away. No. 5's cement walls, towering 180 ft. above dock level, fell apart like cardboard. The top four floors of the big bin were sheared away, and fell in a death-dealing avalanche of concrete and twisted steel, smashing nearby freight cars pancake flat. Concrete pillars, 2 ft. square, were tossed through the air like matchsticks...
...fertile undulating corner of Nebraska last week produced a bumper crop of artistic excitement. David City and Shelby -18 miles apart-were each sporting a one-man painting exhibition by a native son. Both shows, first ever staged in these Nebraska towns, were smash hits. They were also too coincidental for comfort. Almost before the ink was dry on the invitations, Shelbyans and David Cityans were hopping mad at each other. There was even talk of letting the artists settle their differences with pitchforks...
...Clement R. Attlee and Mr. Ernest Bevin arrived on planes six minutes apart. Mr. Bevin is Mr. Attlee's heir presumptive as leader of the Labor Party and Prime Minister, and it was deemed unwise to risk both leaders on the same plane. (Harry Truman and his next-in-succession Jimmy Byrnes had established the practice...