Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shacked up with a half-breed cook named Rosa Elvira Felix, and opened for business as curandero (quack) to the Indian villagers of Puellaro. Before long Rosa shared the secret of the strange seed which he got the Indians to plant among the corn. His brothers, Juan and Nelson, peddled the dried plant as cigarets in Guayaquil or sent it on to Panama...
This was too much for Orley's son, pale-faced young Franklin Burham, who hated his stepmother. He denounced her and the marijuana ring to the police, from whom last week reporters pried the story. Rosa and Juan, arrested, confessed. Nelson got away. Police felt that they had found the drug's main source in Ecuador...
...record stalls looked as gay as well-appointed nurseries last week; an unprecedented flood of children's albums was ready for the Christmas trade. The newly recorded daydreams and nightmares ranged from Nelson Eddy's bellowing like a whale to Jose Ferrer's reading of Mozart and Schubert biographies with symphonic accompaniment. Best of the lot: a straightforward dramatization of Oscar Wilde's poignant fairy tale, The Happy Prince, starring Bing Crosby and Orson Welles (Decca, 4 sides) and Balladeer Woody Guthrie's original harum-scarum Songs to Grow On-Nursery Days (Disc, 6 sides...
Control Loser. "The War Production Board in the early days had practically no control over the War Department and the Navy Department, both of which ran roughshod over the entire war production program. . . . Its Chairman [Donald Nelson] found himself beset . . . by an oil czar, a coal czar, a rubber czar, a manpower czar. . . . To correct this situation an Office of War Mobilization was created. . . . This Office failed to act as a directing and managing organization, but served rather as a referee waiting for disputes among various agencies to arise...
...Holand, that reached Minnesota-after a boat trip calculated to make even a Viking tremble. Assumes Holand: the searchers would first search the Atlantic seaboard north of Vinland, then keep on going; hence their route ran up the Atlantic coast into Hudson Bay, down Hudson Bay to the Nelson River, Lake Winnipeg and the Red River into Minnesota's lake country. There, while looking for an overland route back to Vinland, the party was attacked by Indians. The Kensington runes purport to tell the story...