Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blockbuster No. 2. Three nights later, Tom Dewey dropped a second and more explosive bombshell. In 1925, he charged, Harriman had made a $2,000,000 loan to a company that operated a zinc mine in Polish Silesia. When the loan turned sour, Harriman and some banking associates formed a new company, issuing $15 million in bonds to operate the mine. "Before long, the company started losing money. Then came the war, and the mines were finally nationalized, and Harriman's great promotion, the Silesian American Corp., went into the hands of the bankruptcy court." The result, added Dewey...
...show them that even though they had the guns, that was all they did have. I kept telling myself I could take as much as they could give out without breaking. Of course I knew that everybody has a breaking point, but fortunately we got out before I reached mine." When he realized that the Communists might be trying to frame him as a spy, Dixon's imagination went to work: "I fed them the line that I spent nearly as much time in Korea covering G.I. baking and beauty contests as on the war, and that...
...parachuted behind German lines with 29 other men and kidnaped a German atomic scientist named Otto Hahn. Every other member of the mission, Stringfellow said, was later killed. He said that he was captured and tortured, then escaped to France, where he was crippled by a land mine...
...Malan's New Jerusalem, 8,000,000 Negroes mine the gold, herd the cattle, empty the garbage cans and dig the graves for 2,500,000 whites. Though the Negroes work, they may not vote; though they pay taxes, there are few schools for their children. They may live only in carefully, often brutally policed squalor. This is God's will, claimed Daniel Malan, as he quoted (out of context) from the Old Testament: "Let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water...
...their lumps. As millions of youngsters watched in beady-eyed fascination, Roy Rogers (with the help of Dale and Trigger) got the drop on some slow-witted fur thieves; Hopalong Cassidy (with help from his younger brother ) corralled a batch of badmen who had holed up in a gold mine; the Lone Ranger (with help from Tonto and his horse Silver) outwitted a pseudo-Englishman and won an inheritance which -naturally -he promptly donated to a worthy cause...