Word: ma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legally be exported to Iron Curtain countries). The jeeps' purported destination was Beirut, where a merchant named Jean Maghamez supposedly wanted them for local farmers. Willys-Overland Export Corp. of Toledo cabled its Syrian dealer, Levant Motors, to investigate the $150,000 order. Levant Motors discovered that Consignee Ma-ghamez was just a front man, and replied that it suspected Les Fils de Basile Obegi was planning to reexport the jeeps to Rumania. The auto firm, however, said nothing to the Commerce Department...
...Maître d'Hôtel Charles Ficklin gets $4,745; his brother, First Butler John Ficklin, $3,575. They, the second butler and two other butlers, two housekeepers, five housemen and eight maids, must keep track of 2,200 pieces of table linen, 2,427 of glassware, 10,114 of chinaware, 6,201 of silverware, 2,630 of furniture, to say nothing of lamps, rugs, draperies, portraits, blankets and assorted bric-a-brac...
Healthy Majority. It was no landslide, but the victory gave Prime Minister Eden a majority of 59 seats, and a working ma jority of 67 seats over the Laborite Opposition. It meant an end to years of narrow majorities, nerve-racking party discipline and last-minute scrabbling in the corridors to squeeze crucial measures through Parliament. For the first time in 90 years, the party in power was re-elected with an increased majority...
...Register family that had fallen on hard times in 1929, he went to Princeton on a scholarship, sold sandwiches, newspapers and magazines from door to door, played end on the football team and was president of his senior class. A World War II Navy officer, he participated in eight ma jor Pacific battles and won two Bronze Stars...
...Marty," says Mrs. Pilletti to her 34-year-old son, as he moves in on the evening plate of spaghetti after a hard day in Mr. Otari's butcher shop, "why don't you go to the Stardust Ballroom [tonight]?" Marty (Ernest Borgnine) tries to look unconcerned. "Ma, when you gonna give up? You got a bachelor on your hands. I ain't never gonna get married." But his mother (Esther Minciotti) can't let well enough alone, and finally Marty bursts out bitterly, "Whatever it is that women like...