Word: haves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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At week's end the stock had firmed a bit, was back to 36½. But both the New York Stock Exchange and the Securities and Exchange Commission had some questions to ask Curtiss-Wright and its managers. The exchange began investigating to see if Chairman Hurley or any...
West Point Esthete. "I do not choose to be born at Lowell," said Massachusetts' James Whistler in later life, but he was, on July 10, 1834. The boy's father, a West Point engineer, shortly obliged him with a surrogate birthplace (St. Petersburg) by accepting Czar Nicholas I...
Post-Office Immortal. In his last years, Whistler was racked by debts, and fought a losing battle of telegraphic wits with Oscar Wilde. Whistler's best was the telegram he sent to the church where Wilde held his wedding: FEAR I MAY NOT BE ABLE TO REACH YOU IN...
Once the Allies secured the Normandy landings, the Americans again got in the way. Why were they always complaining about cautious, tidy Montgomery when he was really taking the brunt of the battle? (The fact is that many military men, including Germans, feel that Monty could have taken his major...
Lovers in the Sunset. The prophet came to earth on June 3, 1881, in Liberty, Mo., the son of an ordained minister and professor of natural sciences at a small Baptist college, who died on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land when Hubert was 16. The boy managed to finish...