Word: partner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Found More Skeleton." The scheme that finally got Con Man Moore was his "Lost Wheelbarrow Mine." To help promote it, in 1936, he used one of the most spectacular stunts in the long history of mine frauds. He got an unsuspecting partner to tell the story to millions of prospects all at once on the nationwide radio program, We the People...
When he returned, an avalanche had covered up the wheelbarrow and he was never able to find the vein again. Who found it? Moore, of course. And he also found the wheelbarrow, the dead partner's skull and the well-rusted murder weapon, a Winchester rifle. To prove his point, he displayed a battered old wheelbarrow in a Moscow general store in 1936. Newspapermen sent stories and pictures of the wheelbarrow all over the country, and then Moore mailed out a blizzard of clippings...
...troughs of low pressure, plus the movement of the high-pressure center out over the Gulf of Mexico, did it. The troughs converged on the U.S. from the Atlantic and the Pacific. The eastern trough let in warm, moist Atlantic air; its western partner opened a path for moisture-laden air masses from the Gulf. Meeting colder air from the Pacific and Canada, the warm, moist air masses condensed and fell to earth as rain...
...what is more, his statement must be accepted as representative of the views of the large body of his countrymen, tells us more than that the once mighty British character is now effete, senile, and immoral; it tells us that at our peril we rely upon England as a partner in the fight to preserve civilization...
...campaigning has been as flat as his turnpike. He was overconfident, started too late, and let the Democrats gobble up most of the best radio and television time. When he did get on TV he looked and sounded much like Frank Smith, Sergeant Friday's deadpan Dragnet partner. Troast suffered his roundest wallop early in October, when newspapers broke the story that Troast had asked New York's Tom Dewey to commute the sentence of Labor Extortionist Joey...