Word: kingpins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reynolds' new plant burns natural gas (40 million cu. ft. daily) as does Kaiser's new $115 million plant at New Orleans. Alcoa, still kingpin of the Big Three, will soon complete an $80 million plant at Rockdale, Texas, using lignite, a peatlike fuel...
Massucco, a baffling runner, was good for more than seven yards on each offensive play. He punts, too, at an average of 39.1 yards a try. In fact, Captain Mel could be called the kingpin of the club, were it not for Charlie Maloy, the East's top passer. Maloy can throw a football farther than anybody who will play in the Stadium this year, and he runs the Holy Cross T with finesse and shrewdness...
...Mufti's cousin, who loudly pleaded for mercy; acquittal for four others, including an Arab-born Roman Catholic priest. Also sentenced to death in absentia: Colonel Abdullah el Tel, a Mufti man and former officer in Jordan's Arab Legion, described by the prosecution as the kingpin of the plot, and Musa el Ayubi, a grocer named as the colonel's go-between, who in his own hand had written the note ordering the murder ("Don't be afraid. Kill...
Dogs & Peacocks. Noble's trials began in 1945; until then, he kicked back 25% of the profits of his crap games for "protection" by Benny Binion, kingpin of Dallas gambling during the war years. When Binion raised the ante to 40%, Noble rebelled. Two "enforcers" went after him in a wild night automobile chase and shot him in the back. About that time, Binion moved to Las Vegas, and Noble retired from gambling to become a rancher and a trader in surplus airplane engines. The feud between them...
...body politic. But in New York last week, it was intent on deeper surgery. Though its hearings were closed, and could only be followed by buttonholing the doctors at the operating-room door, the committee's interests were plain. It wanted to know all about 1) Underworld Kingpin Frank Costello, and 2) former Mayor and present U.S. Ambassador to Mexico William O'Dwyer...