Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Castro's man was Major William Morgan, of Cleveland, Ohio, who did stockade time in the U.S. Army, earned his Cuban rank fighting Dictator Fulgencio Batista last year in the central Cuban mountains of Las Villas province (in a minor revolt parallel to Castro's Sierra Maestra campaign). Approached by anti-Castro Cubans in March. Morgan went to Castro. On Castro's orders. Morgan joined the plot, brought in some fellow officers and even set up his luxurious Havana home, a prize of war, as the meeting place...
Approval could not come too soon. With little more than 4,700 miles of interstate roads finished so far, highway funds have run so low that contract awards or advertising for bids have been stopped by 24 states from Maine to Washington, including New York, Ohio, Missouri, California. These states pressured Congress to bow to the President's proposed tax boost, in the face of the oil industry that lobbied hard against it. The penny tax will raise about $960 million. After it expires in mid-1961, the compromise bill would earmark $2,445 billion from present taxes...
From the patio of his five-bedroom, colonial-style house east of Urbana, Ohio, Farmer-Lawyer Vance Brand can look 2¶ miles over pasture and corn land to a white silo that marks the boundary of his 1,700-acre farm. But for the last few years he has had little time to enjoy the view, has been intent on a much broader horizon. As a director of the Export-Import Bank since 1954, Vance Brand, 52, has traveled more than a quarter of a million miles at the job of overseeing longterm, low-interest loans for the world...
...onetime Marine Corps captain, now a Volkswagen district service manager, famed for his $64,000 winnings on cooking knowledge (he was the first top winner) from TV's now defunct The $64,000 Question; by Betsy Griffen McCutchen, 32; after ten years of marriage, three children; in Delaware, Ohio...
Standard Oil Co. (Ohio...