Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chief J. Edgar Hoover was down for a $1,000 raise in the original bill. When it reached the floor, two members suggested he get a $3,500 raise instead, and the proposal was quickly adopted by voice vote. His new salary: $17,500 a year...
...Instead of sending their loot to the Alt Aussee mine, their great art repository...
Last week, in the condemned row at Sing Sing, Squint Sheridan and Cockeye Dunn were ready to die. Danny Gentile had turned "canary" at the last minute, singing out his knowledge of New York's crime-ridden waterfront (TIME, March 7) to win life imprisonment instead of the chair. Cockeye Dunn's family wanted him to sing, too, but he refused. As for Sheridan, who had tried in court to take all the blame for the murder and had even testified that killing was "just like ordering a cup of coffee," there was never any thought of squealing...
Washington did not. Instead, at 1:45 p.m., the Army notified Uruguay's agents that the bidding time had been extended until 5. After failing to contact Montevideo, the agents held off further bids. At 5:20, they were shocked to hear that the lowest bidder, with a last minute offer of $27.55, was an Argentine firm. When they again lowered their bid to $27.50 the next morning, the Uruguayans were told that the contract had been awarded...
...Shelley Winters) who was his girl friend in the happy-go-lucky war days. Next morning when Miss Winters is found to have disappeared, leaving behind a bloodied scarf belonging to Powell, he takes his next false step. Instead of reporting to the police, he sets out to run down the murderers and is presently up to his ears in big-time racketeers, a ferocious police dog, and a presumptive case of rabies...