Word: ranged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Late one muggy afternoon last month, two men carrying bulging paper bags got out of a 1975 Mercury Marquis, walked up to a cigarette wholesaler's warehouse in Queens, pushed a bell above the steel door and were admitted. A few minutes later, another man rang the bell. "Whaddaya want?" he was asked over an intercom. "This is Jerry. I came to pick up the order," said the caller. "It's too late. I can't give you the stuff," said the voice, clicking off. The caller made a quick gesture to a building across the street...
...except for its controlling interest in Natco, a Pittsburgh-based tile manufacturing company. Natco was renamed Fuqua Industries and became the corporate base for J.B.'s expansion program. By 1968 he had acquired more broadcasting stations and companies in photofinishing, mobile homes, lawnmowers and trucking, which all together rang up sales of $223 million. Next came a sewer-pipe company in 1970, but he sold it because the directors of the N.Y.S.E. did not like the fact that he owned most of the shares, leaving few in public hands. The sale netted J.B. $16.5 million, which helped finance...
...Legionnaire who attended the Pennsylvania American Legion convention and one who became sick and survived the "Philly Killer," I thought you should know that CDC, Atlanta, was first notified of the problem by Sidney N. Franklin, M.D., and Mary McLaughlin, public health nurse coordinator, who immediately "rang the gong" after my examination at the Veterans Administration Out-Patient Clinic, Philadelphia, on Monday...
...year-old brass bell rang out from the bow. Music from the world's largest steam calliope floated to the shore, where hundreds of spectators gathered to watch. A flotilla of small craft escorted the shining white steamer under the Cincinnati Suspension Bridge as it headed for Louisville at the start of its leisurely journey to New Orleans and back...
...Love. Deacon Carter spoke without notes for 37 minutes-until the bell rang for morning services. Then he continued for an additional five minutes. By reminding the class of biblical concepts he had used in his acceptance speech, he gave evidence that he does not consider them at all inappropriate in the political forum. Noting that "God is love" was the first Bible verse he had learned as a child, Carter told the Sunday-school class, "As I put it in my acceptance speech the other night, out of love must come one more thing. Does anyone remember...