Word: nate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fascists' Abortion. U.P.'s Rome Bureau Chief, rotund Reynolds Packard, in his first dispatch from Portugal, reported an abortive attempt by extreme pro-German Fascists to kidnap Mussolini and "elimi-nate" his son-in-law, Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano. The Fascist regime, said Packard, is split by one group demanding closer collaboration with Germany and Vichyfrance and another fearful that the closer Italy works with both the slimmer are the chances of Italy's claims on French Tunisia, Djibouti, Savoy and Nice...
...hundred-yard distance swimming is weak, according to Coach Vaughan. While Nate Davis is forging ahead, the addition of experienced Joe Fitzpatrick, who may yet come out, would be a boost to the squad...
...route will go from New York City (with Baltimore as alter nate) to San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Port of Spain, Trinidad, to Belem and Natal, Brazil. Then it will hop 1,800 miles - not quite the span from Newfoundland to Ireland - across the Atlantic to Monrovia, Liberia (Bathurst, Gambia and Freetown, Sierra Leone as alternates), will hug the hump of Africa as far as Nigeria, then cut across to Khartoum and perhaps eventually to Cairo. Across Africa, Pan Am planned direction finders, hangars, fields, communications and weather stations, resthouses. Priorities for the necessary materials are expected to be granted...
Because his theater operates for 40% less than an average movie house of the same capacity, lanky Nate Barger, veteran Chicago showman and owner of a burlesque house, figures to turn a neat profit on his new $165,000 venture if the weather man and the customers are kind to him. He can give two shows nightly. Full capacity (better than three admissions to a car) should gross him $15,000 to $20,000 a week...
...Captain Nate Greer, Bob White, and Rollo Thompson have twice defeated the Artillery and Cavalry, downed Edgewood once and overcome an informal organization, the "Caissons" several times...