Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here Is Hugo. In the British-occupied zones, the blow fell on German industrialists. In a sweeping move to denazify the Ruhr industries, the Control Council arrested 40 leading officials of the powerful Rhine-Westphalian coal syndicate. Biggest fish in the British net: Tycoon Hugo Stinnes, 48, son of Germany's onetime greatest financier and powerful figure in the Ruhr coal and steel industries. Said the British: "Such men represent the worst in Germany . . . never hesitated to use their vast power to support dubious political movements . . . assisted in the growth of the National Socialist Party...
Wearing a bouffant off-shoulder gown of pink net, pink gloves trimmed with silver, and a silver-and-rhinestone butterfly, Betty Tyson received more than 600 guests, including Navy Secretary and Mrs. James Forrestal, Lieut. Commander and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks Jr.. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jim Farley and daughter...
...knows how many hundreds of her crew bobbed in the ocean the next morning. Three life rafts and a floater net supported a few. The rest drifted about, held up by rubber life belts or Mae Wests. By mid-afternoon all were blind from the tropical sun, and after dark they shook with cold. About 60 died that night. Their life jackets were ripped off for the living...
...Long Wait. As best they could they kept together, some tied to a long rope like corks on a net. A demented sailor yelled that his mother had just handed him a glass of cold milk. Another pointed to an imaginary island; Seabees, he screamed, were drinking tomato juice, less than two miles away. This caused a weird mass hallucination, and nearly 100 men began swimming for the island...
...promptly made the letter public, without the courtesy of sending a copy to Roy White. In it he suggested that it was high time the B. & O. paid back the $82 million still owed the Reconstruction Finance Corp. Reasoned Senator Wheeler: since 1939 the B. & O. has made a net profit after taxes and interest payments of $100 million, plus a bookkeeping profit of $35 million from the repurchase at bargain prices of its bonds in the open market. Finally Wheeler charged that "Wall Street speculators have made a huge killing in the B. & O. stocks . . . there has been...