Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Fives-Lille-Cail Co. near Lille, France, found its metal business falling short of expectations, it sent out immediate-dismissal notices to 527 employees. The men asked for time to find new jobs and went into an abortive sit-down strike, but the management was unmoved. Last week came helping hands from two Roman Catholic churchmen. Achille Cardinal Lienart, Bishop of Lille, and Emile Maurice Guerry, Archbishop of Cambrai, issued a joint statement about the responsibilities of managers toward the managed...
FOREIGN BIDDER won a major Tennessee Valley Authority contract to build turbogenerator near Tuscumbia, Ala. Award went to England's C. A. Parsons & Co., Ltd., which bid $12,095,800, v. General Electric's low domestic...
William John Frye was a Texan who was born to fly. When three Army planes made a forced landing near his father's ranch in the Panhandle during World War I, 14-year-old Jack Frye knew where his future...
...regiment in the Rainbow Division popularly known as the Fighting 69th, World War II director of the Office of Strategic Services, which conducted U.S. espionage activity behind enemy lines, U.S. Ambassador to Thailand (1953-54); in Washington. Shy, mild Bill Donovan had an antonymic nickname, quiet reserves of courage. Near the Marne in 1918, with a machine-gun bullet in his leg, Colonel Donovan refused evacuation, set an example that won him the Medal of Honor...
...Haunted Palace, by Frances Winwar. Drinks, drugs and near-madness were Poe's doom, as this fine biography shows, but genius was his destiny...