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Word: gallions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negro sharecropper in Gallion, La., light-skinned Theodore Roe got no schooling and was pushed into the world without a nickel. But Ted was luckier than a gallon of Fast Dice Oil. Fate led him to Little Rock, Ark., where he did odd jobs for a tailor and learned to sew. With this education, he pushed on to Chicago and went to work for a Negro tailor named Edward P. Jones. And that put Lucky Ted on the express escalator to Easy Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Lucky Ted | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

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