Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strife Begins with 90. In Long Island City, irate Fishmonger Michael Stringnano tried to throttle a housewife when she paid 90 pennies for a 90? fish, meekly confessed: "I must have lost my head...
...long time the Navy has wanted to get control of island bases which, in turn, would give the U.S. control of the Pacific. At both Paris peace conferences (1899 and 1919) it lost. Last week, the Navy showed that it was out to get the bases this time, and no mistake. Without waiting for diplomats to settle the legal status of islands once held by the Japs, the bare-knuckled admirals laid their own proposal before Congress...
...York Philharmonic-Symphony, master fully shushed a publicity agent who wanted him to name the world's ten greatest musical works. Said Rodzinski: let somebody determine what ten works audiences "would not like to hear under any circumstances, even if they were on a lonesome island in the mid-Pacific for ten years and had no chance of hearing a sound." He waited in happy silence...
...Chicago & North Western; Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific; Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Denver & Rio Grande Western; Missouri Pacific; New York, New Haven & Hartford; St. Louis-San Francisco; St. Louis-Southwestern; Western Pacific...
...bleak Nichol Island, off Nova Scotia's east coast, a lone white house stands above the rocky shoreline. One day last fortnight Lightkeeper James Richard Hutt, 33, picked up his shotgun, set off down the shore to add some ducks and rabbits to the family larder. By dusk he had not returned. His slight, dark-haired wife, Pauline, climbed the steep steps of the lighthouse tower, and lit the twin wicks herself...