Word: better
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Better Description...
...fellow D.P.s: he had relatives in the U.S. His brother Martin runs a bar in Omaha and cousin Karl Stefan is a Republican Congressman from Nebraska. When he got to Omaha, brother Martin took him in and provided for him and his daughter. Last month his luck was even better-the Omaha Steel Wrorks needed an ornamental ironworker and Stefan...
...grand jurors still hadn't found out who killed Cricket Coogler, but thousands of New Mexico's plain citizens thought they were doing better than the old vigilantes...
...most Germans, who like occupation no better than any people ever had, these anti-Allied brass tones were sweet music. After one Schumacher speech in Frankfurt, a middle-aged man told his Hausfrau: "That's what we need-a man running our government who will speak up for us against the Allies." By the principles of representative government, the man was right; by the rules of occupation, he was dead wrong...
Author Hungerford's history of Wells Fargo contains only a few nuggets like the story of Black Bart. It concerns itself chiefly with lavishing praise on Wells Fargo executives and listing company assets and dividends through the years. Most readers had better look elsewhere for the sound & fury of early California days ; but ardent collectors of Americana will want to sift its dry-as-dust style for new facts about the old West...