Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Writer. In Columbus, Ohio, a visitor to a telegraph office wrote a message, threw it away, wrote another, threw it away, wrote a third, handed it to a clerk. The third: "All your cash and be quiet." The first and second, found after the stickup: "Be calm. This is a stickup"; "Holdup, All your cash...
...Julius Caesar, Lord Byron, Columbus, Socrates, Lincoln, Mussolini, P. T. Barnum, Michelangelo, Clark Gable, et al. *To date, Snow White (cost: $1,300,000) has grossed a healthy $7,157,000; Pinocchio is $300,000 shy of its $2,500,000 investment; The Reluctant Dragon has earned a little more than a third of its $686,000 production cost; Fantasia, scheduled for general release soon, is within $500,000 of paying for itself...
This appears to be a grim picture, but since the first regular meet, the Knights of Columbus affair in the Boston Garden, does not come until January, the situation may not be as bad as it looks as first glance. Also, the Tufts meet, set for Briggs Cage on Saturday afternoon is informal and non-scoring, and will not be part of the permanent record of this track team...
...Morris Brown and North Carolina Col lege for Negroes, both undefeated and untied, will face one another in the third annual Peach Blossom Bowl (for Negro colleges) at Columbus...
...worth of aircraft accessories under subcontract for Cleveland's Pump Engineering Service Corp. (which makes hydraulic parts for Martin bombers). He is doing it with machine tools he built or converted himself. His factory is the dining room, kitchen, laundry, one bedroom, and garage of his middle-class Columbus, Ohio home. Two of his 22 employes are ex-convicts whom he met at the Ohio State Penitentiary...