Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bobo Rockefeller (born Jievute Paulekiute), 45, was finally wearing his engagement ring. Though candid about her third husband-to-be ("I'll tell you what he's like: he's a man, and that's a rare thing to find these days"), the coal miner's daughter, whose 1954 divorce from Winthrop Rockefeller brought her a $6,400,000 settlement, was coy about her wedding date. "I hope," she cooed, "we don't take as long to get married as we did to decide...
...karakul number to $3.95 for a bargain-basement ersatz fur. Following their own mysterious impulses, women also seemed to have got that Slavic feeling: the most conspicuous new hat style on female heads this winter has been a high-fashion version of the shapka that looks like a furry coal scuttle...
Sign & Site. NHS's biggest failure has been in not building enough new hospitals. Most of those it inherited were built before 1900. Many lack central heating and use sooty, coal-burning fireplaces to give a grudging, uneven heat. Some have no elevators, or plumbing is so scarce that nurses and male patients queue up for the same toilets. Except for wartime "temporary" units, Britain had not opened a single new hospital in 19 years until 1958. has opened only eleven since then. Outside a Midlands city stands a fading 1938 sign, "Site for new maternity hospital...
...landlord would let you, and then you moved on. We were poor, we were poor. We're not proud of it, but we don't shun the fact that we were the poorest family in South Boston." The family stove was fueled with stray lumps of coal that Knocko and Dannie picked up in the railroad yards, and John's meager earnings were supplemented by a "pauper's basket" from the welfare department. "I had to go down to the Chardon Street welfare home and chop wood so we could get the basket," says Knocko. "Those...
...century, has been expunged from its corporate history). It has had to test its advice in action. As controlling stockholder, it has had to step in to straighten out management problems, at times has found itself running an insurance company, a machinery maker, a food processor, a coal-mining firm, and a molasses company. To settle the estate of one wealthy New York lawyer, the bank merged three small cement companies he controlled, formed General Portland Cement Co., which in 13 years has jumped from $15 million in sales to $59 million...