Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lechin responsibility for the outbreak at Siglo Veinte. When Hertzog, after prolonged arbitration, ordered a 40% wage boost for miners last month, the Patiño company refused to comply. Wage boosts, it insisted, would force the high-cost mines to shut down, cutting the country's one big source of income...
...State of Siege. Before the fighting ended at Siglo Veinte, workers at three other big mines went on strike. The country's rail workers walked out in sympathy. In La Paz, more than 8,000 employees of the capital's factories and utilities stopped work. The government declared a state of siege (the seventh in two years), called all able-bodied men from 19 to 50 to the colors. An attempt by M.N.R. exiles to seize and paralyze the rail center of Villazon, near the Argentine border, was nipped...
...accommodate out-of-office politicians accused of plotting revolution, Panama has two comfortable, specially equipped cells: one for big shots at Central Police Headquarters, the other for lesser fry in Panama City's Model Jail. Back in 1936, when Temistocles Díaz, publisher of La Nación, was arrested, he got the Class A treatment from President Harmodio Arias-the V.I.P. cell at headquarters...
...Duke of York, become king, there was still an elder sister ahead of Margaret. -Five years later her Uncle David became King Edward VIII. Then, suddenly his reign was over, and he went off to marry Wallis Warfield. "Are they going to cut off his head?" Margaret asked her big sister expectantly when she heard the news. When she finally understood that her own father was to be the monarch, her interest gave way to bored impatience. "Oh, bother," said Great Britain's princess, "and I've only just learned to spell York...
Hamilton Holt's own idea for a successor was "either an old man of renown, or a young man with promise." Last week, the trustees voted for youth. At 31, big (6 ft. 1 in.), jut-jawed Paul Alexander Wagner, businessman and former instructor in education at the University of Chicago, will be the nation's youngest college president. When Rollins found him he was No. 2 man at Chicago's Bell & Howell...