Word: owned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Purity & Flavor. The master had turned his palace into a picture factory, where his students did most of the work. Rubens would supply them with sketches, add a few finishing touches when the paintings were done, and sign them with a flourish. He soon found that young Van Dyck'...
Stan already has his own business. As new co-owner of Stan Musial's & Biggie's Steak House in St. Louis, he strolls among the restaurant's potted palms every evening that he is free, smiling shyly at his guests. Even if the restaurant business should fail...
Every veteran of submarine war patrols has stories of false "enemy contacts" reported by underwater detecting devices. If the signals were only reflections of the high-frequency sound waves sent out by the sub itself, false alarms could easily be caused by whales or schools of fish. But far more...
One possible conclusion: whales and their kin were the real inventors of sonar.* What they used it for, men can only guess. Mrs. Fish found apparent confirmation of the theory in the pig-boats' logs: when a sub jammed the "enemy's signal by sending out its own...
Philip Murray waited for silence. The C.I.O. Steelworkers' president was concluding his final plea for a 30? -an-hour package of wage increases, pensions and social insurance. Across the oak-paneled hearing room sat Enders Voorhees, chairman of U.S. Steel Corp.'s finance committee, who had presented the...