Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Teresa Gonzales is the wife of a bricklayer living in Colonia Mexicana, the dirt-poor shack town of Brownsville, Texas. Now 35, Mrs. Gonzales has had four children in 13 years. The first died in infancy. The next two, both girls, were delivered by dangerous high-forceps methods. Fortnight ago, Teresa Gonzales was to be delivered of her fourth child...
...pool the first communiqué from the conference and send it as a joint dispatch to the three wire services, United Press, Associated Press and International News Service. When the communiqué-the only real news in the meeting-was issued, it was sent down to the radio shack for transmission. Before it could be sent, Smith took his own copy of the communiqué, rip-roodled off to the radio shack and peremptorily ordered the operator, "in the name of the White House," to send it. The trusting operator complied. By the time the pooled message was sent, Smith...
Died. Frank Phillips, 76, multimillionaire oilman; in Atlantic City. Born in a farm shack in Nebraska, Phillips went to work at 14 as a barber's apprentice, became in turn 1) owner of the biggest barbershop in Creston, Iowa; 2) a prosperous bond salesman; 3) a spectacularly successful wildcatter in Oklahoma's brawling oilfields; 4) a bank president; 5) founder-president (1917) of Phillips Petroleum Co. (current assets: $625 million...
Theodore Shadrick, a gaunt, silent man with a face seamed by 37 years in the coal mines, was eating breakfast with his wife when he heard the sound of running feet. A neighbor burst through the doorway of the Shadricks' mountain shack with a breathless shout...
Last week inside the Mulligan shack, for the benefit of visiting newsmen, Maw proudly started up the gasoline engine of a new washing machine. Its chuffy exhaust billowed dust through the room. Cautioned Paw: "Now mom, don't do that. These city fellows don't like getting dust on them." Then he added: "My wife's naturally mechanical...