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...accumulated near the cold poles. Then, to balance the mass of the ice, slightly off center, the earth toppled over. The oceans sloshed out of their beds. When things quieted down, the earth was a sad mess, rotating on a new axis. The North Pole, settling near Siberia, quick-froze the mammoths...
John L.'s .miners were ready to begin their ten-day vacation; their present contract with the mine operators expired on July 1. Meanwhile the operators' spokesman, Ezra Van Horn, had filed suits which froze the miners' welfare and pension fund and prevented its distribution. If the contract were not signed, or the pension fund not unfrozen, John L.'s miners might not come back to work on July...
...Firm? The smiles of Potsdam slowly froze into "patience and firmness." And firmness began, with the announcement of the Marshall Plan, to become more than a word...
North American Rayon Corp., seventh largest U.S. rayon yarn maker, and its sister company American Bemberg Corp., have had a troubled history. In 1940 the U.S. Government, suspecting that their parent company, the Dutch Algemeene Kunstzijde Unie, N.V. ("AKU"), was partly German-controlled, froze the properties, but allowed the U.S. directors to run the companies...
Although the visitors froze at the free throw line, popping only five out of sixteen tries, they were embarrassingly accurate on their set shooting, and they played a bruising floor game. When they lost the ball, they would go after it like football players diving for a fumble. "They just out-hustled us," assistant coach Lloyd Harper said yesterday...