Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first case solved by Finnegan's campaign, but it would not be the last. At week's end, armed with another Sun-Times tip, police arrested a suspect who confessed to the June 1948 murder of Shoemaker John Onesto-Case...
Guess Again. At week's end the job looked bigger than Brannan thought. His statisticians, revising their previous estimates of the 1949 harvest, boosted the total possible yield to 1,336,976,000 bushels, just under 1947's alltime record of 1,364,919,000 bushels. But the actual harvest, which so far had only gone through a few counties in Texas and Oklahoma, was surprisingly turning out anywhere from 30% to 50% smaller than Brannan's estimates (the farmers blamed joint worms, rain and hail for cutting it down). Nevertheless, if the crop proved...
...missed few bets. At night, before locking up, Penney always looked up & down the street so as not to lock out any late customers. By the end of his first year he had grossed $28,898.11-big money for a whistle stop. Soon Penney had surplus cash to buy stores in other towns, looked around for likely local partners. By 1912, he had 34 stores, grossing $2,000,000 a year...
Franklin is not too hopeful about the immediate future of his railroad. He expects Pennsy's 1949 freight volume to fall 15% behind 1948, but anticipates better things by the end of 1950. He will not be president for long after that. Railroaders guessed he will be moved up when Clement leaves the chairmanship and Operating Vice President James M. Symes (rhymes with whims), 51, will take over the throttle. An up-from-the-ranks man also, Jim Symes has great visions of the Pennsy's future, once hopefully proclaimed: "The railroads have a potential travel market that...
...end, Squeaky Burwell, 37, decided to start an airline specializing in all-expense vacation tours. He raised more than $400,000-some of it from the Du Pont family-and, with eight surplus DC-4s and DC-3s, Resort Airlines, Inc. was under...