Word: berthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a hard day's trust-busting in Manhattan, Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold tumbled drowsily into a berth on what he thought was the Washington train, awoke next morning in Boston's South Station...
PRINCETON, N. J., Feb. 12--The Crimson basketball team is now in undisputed possession of the cellar berth in the Eastern Intercollegiate League as a result of a 36 to 32 overtime loss tonight at the hands of Princeton...
From reporting Brooklyn for the American, Heatter proceeded to crime stories for the Brooklyn Times. His last newspaper berth was with the New York Tribune, for which he once wrote Children of the Crucible, an account of life on Manhattan's East Side. Invited in 1932 to debate Socialism with Norman Thomas in the pages of The Nation, Heatter so fascinated Radioman Donald Flamm with his ideas that he was eventually signed up as a WMCA news commentator at $35 a week, later moved on to MBS. Today he takes in some $130,000 a year from...
...Bastico, 64, a veteran of the 1911 war with Turkey in which the islands were acquired, veteran also of World War I, Ethiopia, the Spanish Civil War, in which his "volunteers" captured Santander. Cut off from home by the British blockade out of Crete, General Bastico's new berth will not be cushy...
...bushels short for an approximate profit of $10,000,000. Quietly sensing the end of a falling market in 1927, he bought Mexican Petroleum, pushed it up 75 points, suddenly went off on a vacation with another bull fortune in his pocket. Unable to get a lower berth on a Florida train, he chartered a special to take him from Palm Beach to Jacksonville...