Word: miche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shortest railroads in the U.S. is the little Ohio & Morenci, which hauls freight 20.2 mi. from Berkey, Ohio to Morenci, Mich. About six months ago, the Ohio & Morenci petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission for authority to go out of business: there just wasn't enough traffic to make it worthwhile...
...last major barrier to final passage of a vast housing program appeared to be crumbling yesterday when a leading house opponent indicated foes may be about ready to call off the fight. Rep. Jesse Wolcott (R-Mich.), who led the successful opposition last year, said "I don't think we will be able to stop it now." Two more of the Truman administration's prime legislative goals--a now labor bill and federal aid to education--are due for showdown tests in Congress this week...
...first time in its 52 years, enterprising Dow Chemical Co. had no Dow at its helm. Dr. Willard Henry Dow, killed in a plane crash March 31, had succeeded his father as head of the business founded on a process for extracting bromine from the briny seas under Midland, Mich. Willard Dow had developed enough new products and processes to make the company the fourth biggest U.S. chemical manufacturer (600 products, $171 million gross and $21 million profit in 1948). Last week the directors picked two men to fill Willard Dow's shoes...
Government agents said that all war surplus wholesalers had been told to dismantle I.F.F.'s little bomb. But a check at just one store in Benton Harbor, Mich, revealed that over 1,000 sets had been sold with the detonators intact. Sounding nationwide warnings, the Government men admitted that they had no idea how many I.F.F. sets had been sold throughout the country. Only the skill of the individual buyers (probably most of them are radio hams) stood between them and maiming accidents, serious burns, or blindness from the dynamite caps and fiercely burning thermite...
This caused some controversy between them. But eventually they bundled Janet's body up in a trunk, carted it to a rented house in suburban Queens, and buried her in cement in the basement. A few days later they turned up in Grand Rapids, Mich., and after suitable preliminaries, moved in with a new prospect-a pretty, 31-year-old widow named Deliphene Downing...