Word: queen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...power shortages-200,000 of them in Detroit alone. Rail, river and air transportation was badly disrupted. At subzero temperatures, locomotives were unable to keep up steam pressure. The Ohio River was frozen from shore to shore for the first time in twelve years. Storms at sea delayed the Queen Mary's arrival for two days. In Chicago, where Lake Michigan pilings were so heavily coated with ice that they looked like Sherman tanks (see cut), water-system intakes had to be unclogged with dynamite. At Mayville, N.Y., a trial was suspended when the court clerk found that...
...Madison Square Garden last week, as the hula-dancing queen of her own Hollywood Ice Revue, La Henie had fined down...
Fortnight ago, his nose for news began to twitch again. He presided over a house-warming at his paper's new London home. Then he cleared his billiard-table-sized desk, and caught a boat train. In Manhattan last week, four hours after stepping off the Queen Elizabeth, he gave the Council on Foreign Relations a lucid lecture on Britain's "concealed inflation" (the Crowther view: an oversupply of demand) and its inevitable end ("we are disconcerted now by the boominess of the boom, as we shall be equally disconcerted by the slumpiness of the slump...
Died. Walter Francis Frear, 84, first Supreme Court Chief Justice of the Hawaiian Islands (1900-07), third Governor (1907-13); in Honolulu. A circuit judge under Queen Liliuokalani, he helped frame the legal code of the islands when they became a U.S. territory...
...planted her prosperous Colonies, A very respectable Virgin Queen...