Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Karl Mundt's first act as chairman was to order the files in the Schine case put under lock & key. Then he and Arkansas' John McClellan, the committee's senior Democrat, hoping at least to move the brawl off the political street corner and into the controlled conditions of the rope-bound ring, set about finding a referee-a fair-minded lawyer with unassailable reputation to take Cohn's place as chief counsel. As the search went on, Joe McCarthy headed for Chicago...
...Hollywood, Cinemactor Gene Autry, who in his western film fare for kiddies regularly shoots or slugs it out successfully with mustached villains, became the target of a $10,000 damage suit. A clock salesman accused Gene of beating him up "wantonly, maliciously and outrageously" after a street-corner discussion involving their horseless carriages...
Revolutions Ahead. With the Chambers brothers' savings of $8,000, the three rented space in a corner of a lumberyard and built a prototype. Frank took it to Chicago and showed it to Montgomery Ward officials, who astonished the three partners by ordering 250 for the 1947 Christmas season. Ward soon upped the order to 1,000, then 2,000. The partners incorporated as Magna Engineering Corp. (after Magna, Utah, home town of the brothers' parents). In 1948, its first full year, Magna sold $3,000,000 worth of Shopsmiths. Last year it grossed nearly...
...anti-intellectual forces of Cambridge have bumbled onto a devise that could sap the will to resist and the fighting edge of Harvard's academic flower. A signal light now stops traffic at the corner of Massachusetts and Holyoke. The calculating city council, which has its own supply of scouts, placed this light at the spot most likely to cause trouble for Harvard. With Hayes-Bickford's emergence as a favorite of young intellectuals taking a leisurely break between rising and lunch time, this corner has been essential for the physical health of Harvard. Dodging the vigilant cabs, cars...
...Cabinet to issue a decree that put her and her friends into a position to corner the cotton market. Zeezee netted thousands; the government lost millions...