Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year, businessmen were stepping up their buying again. One immediate result was a lessening of unemployment. The Labor Department reported that employment picked up in most of the nation's major industrial centers last month. Six areas were removed from the substantial unemployment list (Indianapolis, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Fort Worth, Dayton, Hamilton-Middletown. Ohio, and Columbus, Ga.), leaving 83, lowest since last March...
Ricochet. In Fort Worth, Shorty's Café resounded with gunfire because its owner hid his revolver in the stove and forgot to tell the cook...
...demands, Gilbert said, they stoned and tossed homemade fire bombs at his trucks, planted marijuana in the cars of Southwestern employees, made threatening telephone calls. They also considered shooting Gilbert from ambush and wrecking his home with hand grenades given them by a friendly Army supply sergeant at Fort Sill, Okla...
...total: $67,000. In jittery Detroit, Ford's workers boosted their average contribution from $20.02 to $24.35. Northrop Aircraft's payrollers in Los Angeles raised their contribution to the local A.I.D. chest from $269,000 last year to $307,000 this fall. So it went in Fort Wayne, Ind., Seattle, Cincinnati, Beaumont, Texas-a total of 162 cities now running 2.3% ahead of last year despite the first-half recession. United Community Campaigns Chairman Carrol M. Shanks confidently predicted that total 1959 giving will easily top the $412 million raised...
...least of Conway Twitty's talents, Seat soon discovered, was his ability to compose new songs without straining a tonsil. "Down in Fort Lauderdale," Conway recalls, "I went to sleep one night and dreamed of a song. I jumped out of bed and jotted down the words. Then I hummed the tune." Result: a song he called Not for Me, which he has yet to record. "I was at the Flamingo Lounge in Hamilton, Ont. last February," Conway says, "and I went up to the office during intermission and wrote It's Only Make Believe in seven minutes...