Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everything. It brought in other industries - glass factories to make bottles, metal works for bottle caps, paper plants for labels and cartons. The Sadas, Muguerzas and Garzas, the families who brewed the famed Carta Blanca and Bohemia, came to a large extent to control Monterrey's 600-odd industries. The brewery also set Monterrey's labor pattern, with independent (i.e., company) unions for its 4,000 employes, one of the most elaborate social centers in Mexico, evening classes, free beer, swimming pools, free medical clinics, and interest-free loans for those who wanted to buy their own homes...
...others. The Republicans, for instance, taking advantage of post-war American apathy to foreign and domestic affairs, are hoping for a light vote in November. They calculate that the tides of disaffection from the Democratic ranks will easily bring in sufficient votes to win the thirty or so odd seats in the House which the Republicans lost by a mere three percent margin...
...private Gwendolen Mary John liked to call herself "God's little artist." She was very reticent about her painting and was reluctant to sell it or show it publicly. She often neglected her pictures after completing them, and left them lying about in odd corners of her studio...
...Mayor William O'Dwyer's school-teaching sister, Kathleen, flew home to Ireland from New York, flew straight into trouble. Seized by Irish customs men: 500-odd pairs of undeclared nylons. Back in New York the Mayor's brother, Paul (who said the nylons were for a sister who runs a drygoods store), assured the press that he was sure Kathleen had really meant to pay duty...
...death of Hill posed the question: what happens to a one-man company when the man is no longer around? (Actually, Hill owned less than 4,000 of American Tobacco's 2,000,000-odd voting shares...