Word: kept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last spring, Aden's British Governor Sir Reginald Champion added another straw to his imperial burden. An Adenese chieftain, the Sharif of Beiham, had asked that a frontier customs post be set up to tap the rich stream of smuggled coffee, skins and qat (an Arabian drug) which kept flowing into his territory over an ancient traders' trail from Yemen. Governor Champion ordered the post built, but the Yemeni launched a strong objection. Later, they simply started shooting at the new customs house...
...Pittsburgh, far from the pennant hubbub, baseball fans were experiencing another kind of emotional turmoil. They had nothing but scorn for the impotent Pirates (who were 28 games out of first place), but they kept paying their way into Forbes Field to gaze, with the dewy-eyed reverence of Babylonian idol worshipers, upon big, amiable, good-looking Ralph McPherram Kiner. There was no doubt in any Pittsburgher's mind that easy-going Ralph was the biggest man in big-league baseball...
...become one of Chicago's biggest liquor dealers. But when the state legislature passed the Mandatory Fair Trade Act in July 1947, the state liquor commission tried to suspend his license for selling Penn Springs whisky 95? cheaper than the fair trade (i.e., minimum retail) price. Jacob kept his license while he fought the case through the courts...
...kept control of them through two World Wars and innumerable political upheavals by means of a bewilderingly complex holding company, incorporated in Belgium, called SOFINA (Société Financieère de Transports et d'Entreprises Industrielles)* The value-and power-of SOFINA is Heineman's secret. But its five-year battle with March over Ebro makes E. Phillips Oppenheim's stories read like fairy tales. Says Dannie Heineman, with icy anger: "I'm no angel, but I've always been a builder. Juan March has always grabbed what he wanted. He wanted Ebro...
...masterpiece to life in English spent 17 years directly on the job and a lifetime indirectly preparing for it. Samuel Putnam began translating in Latin class at Hoopeston, Ill. High School, was so good at it that he won a Latin scholarship to the University of Chicago. Ill health kept him from earning a degree but not from trying his writing hand at newspaper work...