Word: forli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back to Pokey. After he was turned loose, the law found it necessary to lock him up again for violating his parole: he had celebrated his release by helping a friend bilk an old lady out of her money. When he got out the second time, the war was on...
One of his customers was a wealthy Spanish cattleman named Ramon Samovia; Yant confided to Samovia that oil had just been discovered near some property he owned in Placerita Canyon-he would be rich as soon as he dug up enough money to sink a well himself. Samovia bought into...
Last week 154 wells were pumping on one 80-acre tract and 4,000,000 of the pool's estimated 18 million barrels had been sucked out. Though the Placerita boom had knocked the price of crude oil from $2.16 to $1.53 a barrel in Los Angeles, onetime Con...
Last week in London, the I.C.F.T.U. (International Confederation of Free Trade Unions) formally set itself up in business. In spite of some fraternal squabbles and a contest between American and British delegates for domination of the new labor international, the organization's birth pangs were relatively mild. It had...
"Bread-Economic Security and Social Justice for All!"