Word: resoldering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spends his bottle-watching days in a sunny little studio overlooking the garden. "I never go out," he says, barely exaggerating. He works slowly, repainting each canvas many times, and producing perhaps a dozen finished pictures a year. These he sells for less than $200 each. They are often resold for ten times his price, but says he, "I would consider it an immoral exploitation if I myself were to accept such...
...filled tanks with coffee beans he bought in Belgium for 60? per lb., concealed them with a small inner tank containing a few gallons of milk, resold the coffee on the German black market for up to $11 per lb. The scheme worked fine until German customs officials got suspicious, arrested him with a 5,500-lb. load ; of coffee. Friends in the Post Exchange service got him freed on $12,000 bail, and McLane promptly skipped the country. The Germans tried him in absence, found him guilty and sentenced him to seven months in jail...
...land uses, they must buy up the land, clear it, and resell. Where the plan calls for spot clearance for municipal proects, they must clear and build. Where the plan calls for housing, and owners cannot bring existing slums up to standard, the land is condemned, cleared, and resold to real estate interests or used for public housing...
...Braden became a controversial figure when he bought a house in a white residential district and then resold it to a Negro war veteran, Andrew Wade. The house was later dynamited by terrorists, and Braden was convicted in court of destroying the house to further his political interests. He was sentenced to 15 years in jail, but is appealing this sentence...
Braden, a Kentucky newsman, presently out of prison on bail, will look at the segregation problem through a specific incident. It 1954, Braden bought a house in a white residential section, which he promptly resold to a Negro war veteran, Andrew Wade. The Wades were terrorized in subsequent months by the Ku Klux Klan. The violence culminated in June, 1954, when their house was destroyed by a dynamite explosion...