Word: owned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The girl who gets rescued from the fire, and who indirectly caused it, is Susan Hayward. Pretty enough to spark all sorts of explosions, Susan gets this one under way by vowing vengeance on a local oil baron (Lloyd Gough) whom she holds responsible for the death of her father...
The Black Robe's ragtag characters shamble through a fictitious police court. Their problems range from strong-arm felonies to a housewives' quarrel over the basement washing machine. The only professional actor in the shifting cast is the judge. None of the others even try to memorize lines...
...farmer could draw the other 25% of his loan. The CCC will also build 50 million bushels of storage space of its own, lend farmers 85% of the cost of building their own storage facilities and, if necessary, store wheat in airplane hangars, Army igloos and other Government-owned property. Brannan even suggested emergency storage space for about 15 million bushels in the holds of the Government's "mothball fleet" of Liberty ships...
Profit-Takers. The indictment made no attempt to set forth the complex schemes by which Tucker had raised-and spent -$28 million collected from the sale of stock and dealer franchises for his Torpedo 8. The grand jury merely totted up Tucker's statements and labeled each one "false...
Poverty & Progress. All this grew from a single store which 27-year-old James Cash Penney started 47 years ago in the mining town of Kemmerer, Wyo. (pop. 1,000). Young Penney, frail and ailing, had gone West for his health from Hamilton, Mo., where he grew up in poverty...