Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fact-Finding Formula. As the hours ticked by, big blast and open-hearth furnaces began shutting down. Coke ovens were banked. But under the combined pressure of the White House, public opinion and the dark prospect of a full shutdown, some of the smaller steelmakers capitulated. Then Bethlehem and Republic, junior partners in steel's Big Three, followed suit...
...onetime newsboy, dark-haired Bill Richards hustled at odd jobs to pay his way through Massachusetts Institute of Technology. With a degree in chemical engineering, he landed a research job in the Studebaker plant at South Bend, Ind., but was soon booted out because he spent all his time fooling around with racing cars. After the Indianapolis crackup, he worked as a truck farmer's assistant, spotted the scraggly Cap Cod patch at Sandwich and bought it cheap...
Included are such classics as Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and Major Barbara, three Charles Laughton pictures (The Beachcomber, Jamaica Inn, Sidewalks of London), and the successful Dark Journey, South Riding, A Star Is Born and The Young in Heart. WPIX will begin televising the series next month, and will syndicate the pictures to stations outside the New York area...
...Dark Explosions. On the day of the assassination, Sheean stood in the garden, saw Gandhi come across the grass toward the summer house, saw him climb the steps, and heard "four small, dull, dark explosions." Sheean nearly fainted, fell against the garden wall, and after some minutes realized that his eyes were scalding with tears-"more acid than I had known"-and that blisters had suddenly appeared on the third and fourth fingers of his right hand. "How could such things be?" he asked himself...
...Dark Side. In Columbia, Tenn., Bridge Worker Walter Atkinson fell 41 feet into 18 inches of water, arose only slightly bruised but with a complaint: "My cigarettes...