Word: finding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scoop. In Miami, Newspaperman Forest Turnbull was kidnaped, robbed, left bound and gagged by two hoodlums who then called his paper, said they had a good story and told where to find...
Last fortnight, puzzled by his Foreign Minister's and his Ambassador's widely divergent estimates of U.S. sentiment toward Argentina, Perón decided to find out who was right. Without bothering to consult the sensitive Bramuglia, he called Remorino home. In an early-morning session in the President's Casa Rosada office, the two men were asked to explain the difference in their views. Words passed, tempers rose. Bramuglia accused Remorino of plotting to get his job. Finally, his composure lost, the Foreign Minister used the classic Spanish obscenity about a man's mother. Then...
When Toddle Houses located competing restaurants near Dobbs Houses and started a price war, Jimmy Dobbs hammered back. He rounded up the smelliest bums he could find and sent them to Toddle Houses to eat during rush hours. By 1941, Toddle Houses had enough. It bought the 46 Dobbs Houses for $500,000. Hull decided to concentrate on car selling (the company will gross more than $50 million this year, net $2,500,000), and Dobbs moved into the airports...
Honest Joe Lockman was distressed when he discovered that his destination, Utopia, wasn't marked on his Socony Automobile Guide. But Joe enjoyed a good gag, and when he checked up on the mysterious region he was tickled to find that it derived from the Greek ou (not) and topos (a place...
Superstitions sometimes cancel each other out. The Duke of Wellington, who believed that putting a pair of shoes on a table meant that their owner would be hanged, once fired a servant for jeopardizing a young woman's life in this manner. But British jockeys like to find their shoes on a table, turn white with worry when they find them on the floor. Winston Churchill reversed custom with his wartime V-for-Victory sign. Italians and Spaniards, who used the same two fingers to represent the horns of the devil, pointed them downward when they wanted to keep...