Word: fires
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Torch Carrier. In Eiseldorf, Germany, Farmer's Daughter Agnes Schwimmbeck, questioned about setting fire to her father's barn and farmhouse, confessed that she loved a member of the local volunteer fire brigade, wanted to lure him to the farm...
...reach of Washington on Lake Ontario, Foster Dulles moved with Janet into a different kind of glory, as a sort of woodsman cosmopolite, expert cook and reluctant pan washer, heating hors d'oeuvres over a Japanese habachi, basting squab chicken on a spit before the open fire, sitting outside on the rocks sipping cognac, watching and identifying birds, staring out across the grey waters he had known...
...limit on sugar farms. By turning his agrarian reform against bigness rather than inefficiency, Castro may well scare off all U.S. capital and thereby slow Cuba's growth toward a diversified economy. As Mexico and Puerto Rico have proved, diversification provides new jobs and takes most of the fire away from the land-reform issue. Only 55% of Mexico's citizens now live off the land (compared to 80% in 1930). The most prosperous Mexican farmers are the big ones, who have found ways of getting around land reform's parcelization. Among the richest planters in Morelos...
Dead in Bed. Schindler was hired by Sir Harry's daughter, Nancy Oakes de Marigny, after Sir Harry was found-dead, bludgeoned and fire-scorched in bed -by his lone house guest, Bay Street Real Estate Tycoon Harold Christie, now 62. The private eye showed that preliminary investigation of the murder was botched, helped get an acquittal for the prime suspect, Nancy's husband. Count Marie Alfred de Fouquereaux de Marigny. When De Marigny was expelled from the islands after his acquittal, Nancy had the marriage annulled, tried marriage a second unsuccessful time, has been seen around London...
...Trial by Fire. What has kept Torroja largely unknown is that most of his work is to be seen only in Spain. But the very fact that Spain is woefully short on steel supplied the driving force behind Torroja's exploration of concrete as a material that could be both cheap and strong. The son of a Catalan mathematics professor, Torroja trained as an engineer at Madrid University, then worked for five years as a contractor before finally deciding that "the structure of concrete cannot be figured mathematically-it is much stronger than the mathematician can prove...