Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles of his plant, thus licking the transportation costs that ruined many other prefabbers. Price sells his houses through some 550 builder-dealers around the country, some of whom gross upwards of $500,000 a year. Biggest cluster of National homes: a development of 2,000 units at Fort Wayne...
About Face. In Fort Worth, after 40 years as a tavern owner, Harry M. Blankenship piled his stock of brew on the sidewalk in front of his cafe, announced as he walked away from it: "I decided to stop working for the Devil and go to work for the Lord...
That night, out of Fort Worth, came a blast from the opposing camp. In a nationally televised speech, old (72) Sam Rayburn, Democratic leader of the House, said the way to save the U.S. is to elect a Democratic Congress on Nov. 2. The Republican Administration is "inept" and its Congress "as forward-looking as yesterday," he charged. He flatly predicted that the Democrats would win both the Senate and the House...
...censure charges (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The committee, which is trying to decide whether McCarthy improperly received and used secret Government documents, thought Winchell might help them. Four months ago Winchell had bragged in print that he had his own copy of the "Personal & Confidential" document on the loyalty of Fort Monmouth personnel that got McCarthy into trouble. The Watkins committee wanted to know where Winchell, who is a good friend of both Joe McCarthy and Roy Cohn, got his copy of the document...
...first target was Linwood Park, Inc., builder of a Fort Lee. N.J. project, which netted the builders a $2,456,821 profit. If FHA could successfully take over the corporation and get back the windfall cash, it planned to go after all the other windfall profiteers...