Word: caught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strapping, affable Frank Handy, who now operates a printing shop in Ypsilanti, had had dates with Margaret when he worked for the State Department as an interpreter. The engagement rumor caught up with him at a newspaper convention in Chicago. Was it true? Handy said he would have to make "one or two long-distance calls" before he could comment. Later, after news of the White House denial reached Chicago, he said: "I think I'll stand on that...
...Cushion to Fall On. The trimming went deep. It caught the big operators as well as most of the small farmers. Oklahoma's oil-rich Governor Roy Turner, a breeder of registered Herefords, swallowed hard when his best bull brought only $6,100 at his annual sale last week. Last year his top animal fetched $25,000. Montana's "Wheat King," Thomas Campbell, who said three months ago that he was holding all of his 610,000 bushels, said last week that the wise farmer would still hold on; there might be a pickup in prices because demand...
...snapped and ground, French frontier guards lifted the striped barrier across the Bidassoa River bridge at Hendaye. At 8:20 next morning, the de luxe Pyrenées-Côte d'Argent Express pulled into Hendaye station. And there the glistening blue cars sat for four hours, caught in a snarl of bureaucratic red tape. Paris had forgotten to order the Hendaye station master to let the train through, and he liked to have his orders. Sixty of the passengers, members of Milan's La Scala Opera, volubly wondered if they would get to Lisbon in time...
...from $420,000 a year to $240,000. Then Straight asked that a group of lower-bracket employees (19, said Johnson) be lopped off. Johnson countered: Why not get rid of some of the more expensive help? The list came down to half a dozen, but Johnson found himself caught in a tug-of-war between Straight and the American Newspaper Guild. Last week, when the six employees left, Edd Johnson walked out too. And faithful Bruce Bliven, who had stepped aside when Wallace came in, was now back running editorial matters...
...town was more prosperous than ever before, thanks to the 825 jobs and to the fat bonuses passed out by Lew Reese; in 1946, he gave his workers $705,000 at year's end. But last Christmas, as he prepared to pass out another $423,000, trouble caught up with Lew Reese. His plant burned down, and he had bought no fire insurance...