Word: beene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What shocked Britons most was a statement from the accountants-Cooper Brothers & Co.-that they were "unable to report that in our opinion proper books of accounts have been kept by the corporation." But Sir Leslie Arthur ("Dick") Plummer, the corporation's chairman and Labor's vice president...
Last summer, when British Movie Director Michael Powell and Producer Emeric Pressburger set up their cameras in Britain's green Shropshire to film Gone to Earth, starring Jennifer Jones, the horsy set at the market town of Much Wenlock (pop. 14,149) were only too delighted to get into...
¶ Two Newfoundland motorists whose cars had been hit by U.S. military vehicles sued in their own courts and won damages. They could not collect.
Although Fraser had magnified the importance of the few incidents in Newfoundland, his article seemed likely to do more good than harm to U.S.-Canadian relations. For more than a year, Canadians have been working patiently and getting nowhere trying to iron out the problem with the U.S. State Department...
In a Manhattan police court, the Metropolitan Opera's Lauritz Melchior helped to win dismissal of a complaint against the Korn Kobblers, a band of zany musicians. The police charge: the band had been riding along Broadway, making "unnecessary noise" with instruments that included "a pipe, a washboard and...