Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Daisy, a Salt Lake City zoo tigress, gave birth to the first known liger (offspring of a female tiger, a male lion) ever born...
...Lake Success last week, U.N.'s Atomic Energy Commission was ready to lay down the futile burden it had carried nowhere for almost two years, and give up the ghost. Said Britain, France and the U.S. in a joint post-mortem supported by a majority of the others: "No useful purpose can be served by carrying on negotiations . . . The commission therefore recommends that . . . negotiations in the Atomic Energy Commission be suspended...
...Sainted Sisters (Paramount) are daintily tough Veronica Lake and delicious Joan Caulfield. In flight from the New York police (circa 1895), they stop off for a con girls' holiday in a little town in Maine. They hole up with Barry Fitzgerald, the solidest down-Easter this side of Galway, and get busy fleecing the yokels...
...first heat will pit the Crimson against B.U., Rutgers, Penn, and Yale. Rutgers pulled up a lame third against the Crimson on Lake Carnegie two weeks ago, with Penn in the same position last week. B.U., a novice in the art of crew, is not looked upon with fear, leaving Yale as the only strong contender...
...banking-George Eccles, younger brother of the Federal Reserve Board's Marriner Eccles. To set up the biggest banking operation between Omaha and California, the Eccles-owned First Security Bank of Utah and the First Security Trust Co. were merged with the First National Bank of Salt Lake City. The new institution, called the First Security Bank of Utah, National Association, has resources of well over $300 million, and more than 40 offices (including affiliated Eccles-owned banks in Idaho and Wyoming). As president, George Eccles will run things by virtue of his family's controlling interest...