Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ammunition we could possibly lay down. I would expect that." Reeder admitted that U.N. Commander Mark Clark had officially requested bigger deliveries of shells. Then Reeder volunteered a sleight-of-hand statement with few equals in the Pentagon's recent history: "We have plenty of ammunition to hold a line [in Korea]. But if you want to get going again it would obviously take a lot more ammunition. We don't have any unused capacity in stand...
...ironhanded rule by a hoodlum named Emil Camarda-went on as usual. Anastasia was not even brought in by O'Dwyer for questioning. Rank & file members of the A.F.L. union, witnesses testified, had to pay their dues to gangsters who simply appropriated them. They were rarely allowed to hold meetings. They not only had to "kick back" up to 40% of their salaries for the privilege of getting work, but to contract for haircuts at a certain shop (which they were not allowed to enter) and to pay exorbitant prices for wine grapes from certain favored dealers whether they...
...were then driven at right angles to the main shafts. The result: a central nave lined with two rows of eight huge columns, and flanked by an aisle on each side. The vaulted appearance, where the arched tunnels crossed, readily suggested a cathedral to many visitors. The idea took hold, and three years ago the Bank of the Republic, which operates the Zipaquira mines, assigned Architect José Maria González Concha to finish part of the galleries as a church...
...coming amateur boxer (85 straight victories), Sugar Ray Robinson firmly resolved: "They'll never hold a benefit for me." He pursued the dollar with the same single-mindedness that brought him two world championships-the welterweight (147 Ibs.) and middleweight (160 Ibs.) titles-and carried him through 137 professional fights with only three defeats. By last week, worth an estimated $300,000 from shrewd investments (real estate, a bar, a dry-cleaning establishment), he knew that the time had come to quit. Said Sugar Ray, in a flowery farewell to the ring: "I do not feel...
Today, three out of four U.S. bank vaults, and half of all private safes, are Moslers. They hold, says President Edwin Mosler, two-thirds of the world's negotiable wealth, along with such oddments as the gold spike which joined the first transcontinental railroad, a set of George Washington's false teeth and all the United Nations treaties. Mosler makes everything from a $25 insulated cashbox for householders to a $1,000,000, two-story vault...