Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some of its publishing functions there. At present 133 TIME Inc. employees are working at the job of fulfilling and servicing subscriptions for FORTUNE magazine (U.S. and foreign) and for the International editions of TIME and LIFE - a job that, in effect, links Denver with 180 countries and possessions around the world to which our magazines...
Harry Bridges flew to Hawaii last week for an admiring look at the 14-week-old blockade that his International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union had thrown up around the islands. He got there just in time to learn how Hawaii's tiny legislature felt about it. By unanimous vote of the senate, and a 24-to-6 majority in the house, the legislators empowered Governor Ingram Stainback to seize the docks owned by the seven stevedoring companies, hire stevedores at pre-strike wage rates ($1.40 an hour) and get the ships moving, after listening...
...Cesare tossed away his cardinal's hat, put himself at the head of a gang of mercenaries, and went to work on the new job of making himself the toughest gangster in Renaissance Italy. Cesare had such a flair for disposing of his enemies without leaving awkward evidence around that historians have never been able to agree on the subtler details of his career. Did he bully and terrify his own father half to death? Was he guilty of incest with his beautiful sister Lucrezia? Did he murder his elder brother? Did he really earn the title one historian...
Working alone and on foot, Black Bart held up 28 stagecoaches in eight years. While Californians built legends around his name, Wells Fargo detectives scoured the mountainsides for clues. They found little except handwritten poems which Bart often left in the strongboxes he had plundered. One stanza...
...Dangerous Age. In Flushing, N.Y., Mrs. Mary Kovacik, 70, charged in court that her husband Joe, 66, had spanked her for "running around with the boys...