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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between Dzerzhinsky Street and Little Lubyanka Street in the heart of Moscow, on Furkasovsky Alley, stands a new yellow brick, nine-story building, resplendent with black marble pilasters. Sentries are posted at the doors. Up and down, the Alley plainclothesmen saunter with studied unconcern. This is the home of the all-powerful EKU (Ekonomicheskoe Upravlenie), economic division of NKVD...
...Take Him Out!" Lynn Patrick was no stranger to the Rangers. For nine seasons before the war, he had been known as a bold, fleet left wing with a deadly left-hand shot. His preeminence was no gift. In Lynn's first game, in 1934, he got the puck, glided confidently toward the goal, was neatly dumped on the ice by a couple of veterans. Sneered one: "Don't hurt him, he's the boss's son." The crowd chanted: "Take him out! Take him out!" They thought he might be trying...
Manhattan's most frequently quoted newspapermen are the drama critics of its nine dailies. How the average play producer feels about them is summed up in a current comedy by a character who calls them "middleaged men on the aisle who hated Mickey Mouse when they were kids." Nevertheless, a producer or a playwright is usually glad to quote critics in large display ads when they have something good to say about his show...
Free Mooney. Whimsical Johnny Bruce, an editor who never finds it necessary to shout or swear at his staff, was weaned on the newspaper lore of his town. At nine, the year after the 1906 earthquake, he hawked the Bulletin in San Francisco's Mission district...
...hoped to turn out 68 million tons of finished steel, 3,000,000 more than the past year's peacetime record, seemed like an anticlimax. His point: without the industry's high earnings, steel companies could never have built the plants for this expansion. In the first nine months of 1948 U.S. Steel had spent $198 million on property...