Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They underestimated the neutral Swedes. First issue, looking almost exactly like the U.S. version and selling for 50 ore (12?) a copy, hit Swedish newsstands Feb. 25, sold out in a week. Result: second issue's press run will...
...Yeah, I know all about it. Roosevelt and Churchill conferred in North Africa." In Wilkes-Barre, Pa. striking anthracite miners declined for a while to obey a Presidential request that they return to work because "it's a phony; the President's not in Washington." A Portland, Ore. reporter was informed by his wife that the President had been in Africa: she had heard it from her mother, who had heard it from her second husband, who had heard it at his Rotary luncheon. One slip was made inadvertently over the Associated Press wirephoto talker system. A Midwest...
Benefit of the Doubt. In Salem, Ore., when a man charged with being a habitual criminal complained that Judge E. M. Page was prejudiced against him, the judge, who said he had never seen him before, nevertheless made out an affidavit of prejudice persuasively attacking his own qualifications, read it, was persuaded, signed it, disqualified himself...
...Henry John Kaiser symbolizes American industry at its best. Even when there was bad news about Kaiser-like the failure of his $6,000,000 Permanente magnesium plant in California-nobody heard much about it. But last week came bad news that got around: at Kaiser's Portland (Ore.) Swan Island yard the newly delivered 16,500-ton tanker Schenectady suddenly broke in half with a thunderous snap, settled in the water with its two-inch steel plates split clean asunder, the midship sections sticking out of the water like crags...
...Times" column. Even then readers may have failed to notice the difference, because Daley's first effort was extremely Kieranesque. In a discussion of the Oregon State and New York City College basketball teams, both called "Beavers," Columnist Daley referred to an Oregon beaver as Castor Ore-goniensis and to a City College beaver as Castor Nova Eboracensis...