Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Death of a Stoic. Recently, the army came across more & more mines near the village. There were many casualties. Last week, an army truck was blown up by a mine just outside Klidi. The wounded driver saw one of Dimitrios' men, Basilis Stoikos, lurking in the bushes and arrested him. To make him talk, government soldiers tied him up and put a mine at his feet. Terrified, Stoikos told all he knew about his boss and his organosis; then he cut his own throat with a broken bottle. A doctor sewed up the wound, but stoical Stoikos tore...
...deal gave Kaiser a permanent place in the U.S. aluminum industry with a totally integrated operation from mine to mill. It also assured Permanente of its ranking as the nation's third largest aluminum producer, with a primary capacity of 130,000 tons v. Reynolds Metals Co.'s 190,000 tons and the Aluminum Co. of America's 275,000 tons...
...Neth erlands careened through a jumping event in London's 30th International Horse Show. After hitting two poles, two gates and a brick wall, he placed fourth from last. Said the prince gallantly of his gal lant mount: "She is a good mare and the faults were mine." Rewards & Returns George Catlett Marshall, a policy maker of some reputation, was elected a director of Pan American Airways Corp...
Said he: "The president of the greatest paper in the U.S., and by that I mean the New York Times, not the Chicago Tribune* had a talk with the Pope, who incidentally is a very good friend of mine, even if I am a Baptist. [Times Publisher Arthur Hays] Sulzberger told the Pope that . . . there was not a chance I would be in the White House after Jan. 20." When the election was over, the President added, the Pope asked Myron C. Taylor, presidential representative at the Vatican, how the head of a great newspaper could waste a half hour...
Died. Van Amberg Bittner, 64, vice president of C.I.O and the United Steel-ivorkers; of a heart ailment; in Pittsburgh. One of C.I.O.'s ace organizers (he directed the postwar "Operation Dixie" to organize Southern labor), Bittner was president of a Mine Workers' local at 16, Pitched his wagon to the John L. Lewis star, but chose to stay as Phil Murray's lieutenant in the Steelworkers when Lewis' Mine Workers broke with C.I.O...