Word: depots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next day, the navy held all of south Bangkok. Army and police were in control of the north, while air force trainers, fitted with improvised bomb racks, fought a desperate duel with navy ships in the river for command of the west side's dockyards and fuel depots. A black pall spread over the city as a bomb struck square on a fuel depot. At one point, the navy sent out an amphibious landing force, only to see it wiped out from the air. An air-force bomb caught the Sri Ayuthia. Fire broke out on board...
...influence of peyote. Last week Dr. Clarence G. Salsbury, longtime medical missionary among the Navajos (and longtime foe of the Indian Bureau), reported that he had just heard of two cases of infanticide and one of fatal child neglect caused by peyote. At Flagstaff's Navajo Ordnance Depot many Indians were unable to work for days at a time after peyote jags. At least one-third of the 61,000 Navajos are estimated to be addicts...
Meanwhile, Clifford Peace had been considering what kind of minister he wanted to be. As chaplain at a replacement depot in England during World War II, he talked to thousands of men. "I saw statistics turn into people," he says. "I knew then that I wanted to deal with people as individuals, and not just shoot into the covey...
When he was running a fruit stand across from Kansas City's Union Depot 40 years ago, Isaac Katz sold oranges at three for a dime. "But Ike," his customers would say, "the other boys get a nickel apiece." "Yeah," Ike would answer, "but they sell one and I sell three. See what I mean?" Ike's kid brother Mike saw exactly what he meant, and soon was running another cut-rate fruit stand nearby...
...Pleasure." At first, Carroll College (500 students) supplied the money. But now Waukeshans themselves put up $10,000 for the budget, and have a wonderful time doing it. Some of the money comes from such citizens as Evan Evans, 68, proprietor of "Pop's Beer Depot," who doesn't care about music but still feels that, "Well, you got to give them a coupla dollars-it gives a lot of people a lot of pleasure...