Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handled about 5,000 cars, worth $4,000,000 at ceiling prices, sold them for $7,000,000. The technique: buying from individuals in auto-jammed Detroit, selling to the auto-hungry mid-South through auction outlets in sleepy Cairo, Ill., and sleepier Murray, Ky. The indicted ringleader: dark, stocky Ben Fishel of Cairo, whose business ran merrily on while he served in the Army...
...result was a rush to get the wheat, meat and fats off the farms and moving in all directions overseas. The President's Cabinet subcommittee (State, Agriculture and Commerce) wanted a dark bread order, and controls on wheat and flour. The State Department wanted to raise the price of grain, luring farmers into selling it instead of feeding it to hogs and cattle. Secretary Anderson agreed, but Price Boss Chester Bowles paled at the thought of a general price rise. Honest differences of opinion seriously hobbled action. Said ex-UNRRA Director Herbert Lehman: the Administration had "failed...
...witch-even an unsuccessful witch-what could he do about it? He set a deputy to searching the statutes, discovered that a law prohibiting palmistry, mesmerism and seership also made "crafty sciences" illegal. Promptly he jailed Mrs. Cordova; just as promptly she got out-by muttering Spanish phrases, throwing dark glances and posting $1,000 bail...
Invitation to Tea. Headed by dark, spectacled C. Y. Cheng, a coal expert in Szechwan during the war, 22 Chinese engineers detrained at Fushun. Said Cheng: "It is not necessary for me even to see the Russians. If they call on me, I will see them. Cooperation with Russians was not in my instructions...
Japanese nightcrawlers, toward the end of the war, often crawled in vain. They would sneak toward U.S. lines, trusting the friendly night. Then out of the silent darkness, a well-aimed bullet would pick them off. Could U.S. snipers see in the dark? Last week, the Army said yes and told...