Word: filles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the ocean lanes into the ports of Toronto, Cleveland and Chicago in what trade promoters like to call the Eighth Sea, the Fourth Coast, the North American Mediterranean. The main payloads on the old 14-ft. canals - iron ore upstream from Labrador and wheat downstream to Montreal-will fill the holds of probably nine-tenths of the ships on the new canal. Seaway planners forecast a traffic load of 25 million tons on the new seaway next season-just double the old seaway's 13 million tons of 1957-and 50 million tons a year...
...Charles Sparks Thomas, 60, bouncy, bottle-bald former Secretary of the Navy (1954-57), was named president of Trans World Airlines, a job that eccentric T.W.A. Owner Howard Hughes has found hard to fill since the death of Ralph S. Damon 2½ years ago. Carter L. Burgess piloted T.W.A. for a year until falling out with Hughes last December; since then, Chairman Warren Lee Pierson has acted as president, and T.W.A., with no firm, clear-cut leadership, lost $14 million in the first five months of 1958. To pull up T.W.A., Hughes picked an old airman. Californian Thomas climbed...
...melting pot of the French army that he began to acquire a basic sense of frustration. "Wherever I turned," he recalls bitterly, "there was injustice. There were always differences between us, the Moslem inferiors, and the superior Europeans. I was a clerk and I had to fill out forms for new recruits. For Moslems the forms were filled out in red ink, for the French in blue ink. That doesn't seem important, does it? It was important...
Marble from Melos. The Louvre treasures that visitors see today represent the titanic effort made to recoup from the post-Waterloo low point. Rubens paintings from the Luxembourg palace were brought in to fill the gaps; French archaeologists sent back to the Louvre whole collections of Egyptian and Assyrian art. In 1820 the French Ambassador to Turkey was able to pick up five fragments of marble on the island of Melos for 1,200-1,500 francs ($230-$285). Pieced together, they became the Louvre's famed Venus de Milo...
...bosses, 'Go to hell,' and they went to hell. Now you tell them 'Go to hell,' and they tell you back, 'You go to hell.' What the unions need these days is smooth guys." Responded Smooth Guy Kenin: "I cannot hope to fill the shoes of our beloved Jimmy-the greatest labor leader of our times...