Word: cleve
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Queen. For this reason, royalty's rights became a matter of mere second thought last week when Fisherman Fred Warman sailed into Grimsby with a 40-lb. sturgeon in his hold. Warman let the sturgeon go at auction along with the rest of his catch, to Fishmonger Oscar Cleve for 3s, 4¾d. (about 45?) a pound...
...Quiet Type. George Humphrey is from the Midwest heartland of coal and ore which supports the kingdom of steel. Since the '20s he has converted Cleve land's M. A. Hanna Co. from a foundering hodgepodge of mines and miscellany into a skillfully integrated corporation with holdings worth $250 million. The M. A. Hanna Co. dominates coal and iron mines, ships, banks, chemical plants, a rayon plant, a steel corporation-and is now deep in an enormous ore project in Labrador. Humphrey's exploits made his name magic among the planners and visionaries of U.S. industry...
...Cleve Barfield, well-to-do kaolin mine operator, has his mind on another man's wife and an ancient legal injustice when he is jockeyed into the thankless job of captaining what looks like the town's losing battle against the river. Twenty years before, one of his Trafford in-laws had been mysteriously murdered. Later, a luckless Negro, pawning the dead man's watch, was arrested, tried, convicted and, strangely, given only a life sentence. Now a Yankee journalist named Vitner is carpetbagging in Fredericksville, poking into this old case, trying to fit the pieces...