Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hotheaded ranchers were all for dealing with the sheriff and some of his political friends "in the good old Western way." They were dissuaded. But students from nearby New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts held a mass meeting, passed around a petition, managed to get a grand jury called. The jury began laying about with a trumpeting, trunk-swinging fury...
...grand jurors still hadn't found out who killed Cricket Coogler, but thousands of New Mexico's plain citizens thought they were doing better than the old vigilantes...
...caption, the society's lawyer filed a $1,000,000 libel suit against Publisher Hearst and the Herald-American, brought suits in Chicago's Federal District Court on behalf of two other members. This week the society announced that two more suits would be filed, boosting the grand total in damages sought to $2,900,000. If they collect, the plaintiffs said they would use the money to make a movie depicting the medical advances achieved through vivisection. Said famed Physiologist Anton J. Carlson, president of the society: "Medical science . . . refuses to be the goat any longer...
...giving Ford a monopoly; it also bought, for $1,000,000, 200 heavy duty White Motor Co. trucks. This week, the motor-hungry nation was negotiating a $3,000,000 deal with General Motors, and another $3,000,000 in contracts with seven other U.S. motormakers for a grand total of 4,800 trucks, buses and tractors. In addition, as soon as a formal peace can be signed with its Arab neighbors, Israel hoped to clinch the Ford plant in Haifa...
Field Work. In Grand Rapids, Mich., Mrs. Vivien Nelson, filling out her fourth marriage-license application, listed her occupation as "bridal consultant...