Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They're Off! In Little Rock, Ark., Judge Frank Dodge considered carefully, decided that betting on horse races is a matter of skill rather than chance...
...made canals. 2. Definite evidence of trees and bushes. 3. Solid carbon dioxide. 4. Only solid rock formations. 5. Water in the solid state...
...commandant, Colonel Frank Howley-a rock-jawed Irishman-issued a bold appeal: "Berliners, show your courage . . . There are evil forces at work . . . whose sworn and ordered mission is to create chaos . . . The people of Berlin will not be permitted to starve." Unfortunately, Howley could not tell them exactly how they would be fed. Western Berlin depends for the most part on 2,000 tons of food a day brought in by rail from Bizonia, 100 miles away-more than could be supplied by the cargo planes which the U.S. and Britain were able to press into immediate service last week...
Guilty. In New York courts last week, two skimmers of the land's fat got the bill. Grey Marketeer and Lawyer Isadore Ginsberg (TIME, Jan. 26) was convicted of grand larceny (for accepting $1,575 for a carload of rock lath that he never delivered). Gus Fusaro, $50-a-week financial district elevator man who played the market for his friends and lost $250,000 of their money, was convicted of grand larceny and operating a bucket shop...
...situation seemed to have the makings of a proxy fight. But even if one developed, there was no assurance that imperious Sewell Avery would be toppled. Aside from his record at turning profits, there was his rock-hard stubbornness. "I'll be here," Avery once told an associate, "until I'm six feet under...