Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earlier raided Amerasia's offices, found there about 40 of Service's State Department documents, which he had stamped "Secret" or "Confidential." Service was arrested along with Jaffe and four others on charges of espionage; two months later he was cleared of espionage by a grand jury and was reinstated in the State Department with a note from Secretary of State James Byrnes ("I predict for you a continuance of the splendid record...
...grand total of paper profits from the four companies, based on last week's stock prices, came to $300,691,246. The companies' biggest worry now is the angry glint in the eye of John Diefenbaker, the country's new Prime Minister, which might lead to a royal commission to find out who all the lucky insiders were...
...shown abroad-the Lehman collection boasts several of the world's great paintings by Rembrandt, Goya, El Greco, Memling and Petrus Christus (see color pages), includes an eye-stunning array of tapestries. Renaissance furniture, jewelry, enamels, bronzes and even diamond-studded snuff boxes. It represents collecting on a grand scale not likely to be repeated...
...Last week Dr. Strughold reported at Flagstaff that this experiment has been performed successfully by Dr. Roland B. Mitchell and Lieut. John A. Kooistra Jr. of the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine. They collected soil samples from the high slopes of Mt. McKinley, the Painted Desert and the Grand Canyon, where the climate in some respects is almost as tough as on Mars. They put the samples in jars and replaced the oxygen-rich earthly air with dry nitrogen. They lowered the moisture content to below 1% and reduced the pressure to 1.2 Ibs. per square inch to simulate...
...soft June afternoon burst to a deep, mechanical snarl, and the gently rolling countryside south of Le Mans, France came alive as 54 low-slung sports cars whirled into the start of "les vingt-quatre heures," auto racing's classic Grand Prix of Endurance. Once more the famous 24-hour race promised spectacular trouble. Last year's exercise in safety had been a dull performance as refueling rules held everyone down to reasonable speeds; there had been only one fatality. Last week the promoters decided to gamble again. Almost as if they had forgotten 1955's monstrous...