Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Article III ("They respect the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live") Winston Churchill has already tacked one proviso: that this shall not supersede the announced policy of Britain in various parts of the Empire...
...Wilhelmina succeeded William III, whose death in 1890 was preceded by that of his sons, William (1841-79) and Alexander...
...Continent began as a pip-squeak Minnesota-Dakota mail carrier, got nowhere until 1936 when rich Thomas Fortune Ryan III bought a big block of the common stock. Ambitious Tom Ryan started romping all over the place, wound up with 6,700 flight miles from Minneapolis (Northwest's home plate) to Huron, S.C., to Tulsa and to St. Louis. Then he applied for routes to New Orleans, other points...
...money ($1,500,000), Rubberman O'Neil got a going concern which has made a respectable profit for the last 20 years. Founded in 1922 by sharp, balding John Shepard III, the network owns four stations outright (Boston's WNAC, Providence's WEAN, Worcester's WAAB, Bridgeport's WICC), has contracts with 17 others. It is, in turn, affiliated with the Mutual network...
...selling. His father, John Shepard Jr., retired Boston merchant, owner of Providence's Shepard Stores, onetime (1930-35) mayor of Palm Beach, and the network's chief stockholder, is 86 and someday there will be estate taxes to pay. Rubberman O'Neil gave John Shepard III a five-year contract to continue as network operations head and board chairman...