Word: second
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the Fact. In Rio de Janeiro, Butcher Manoel Silveira Merinho, arrested for selling his customers second-grade meat at first-grade prices, was released when the station-house cat ate the evidence...
...days the welcome news had swooped and skittered on the horizon like a distant barn swallow. This week, rumor became fact. Bethlehem Steel Co., the nation's second greatest steel producer, had come to terms with Philip Murray's striking C.I.O. United Steelworkers...
...Lease, ably helped to sell Roosevelt's policies to skeptical Congressmen, succeeded Sumner Welles as Under Secretary of State, spread good will, slapped backs and first-named embarrassed British and Russian diplomats. When the aged Cordell Hull had to quit, silver-haired Ed Stettinius, at 44, became the second youngest Secretary of State in the nation's history...
Playwright Tennessee Williams, who walked out on an M-G-M writing job before his Broadway success, returned to Manhattan from a second stint in Hollywood. "I had a lovely time," said Williams. "It isn't such a bad place, really." His assignment: writing a screen play from his stage hit, The Glass Menagerie. His latest experience: "I worked with [Warner Producer] Jerry Wold. We get along perfectly. We were in complete agreement on every point . . . Well, we did have to compromise on an ending. They wanted what they call an upbeat ending. I didn...
Although the crowd was for Pancho, Kramer won the first set, 6-4, and only play at full-power form saved Gonzales the second one, 6-3. From then on, Big Jake bossed the situation like an instructor giving lessons to a prize pupil. He poured...