Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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King of the Hill. Tacho Somoza ruled Nicaragua for 22 years by king-of-the-hill toughness. "I'll give this country peace if I have to shoot every other man in Nicaragua to get it," he announced just after the U.S. Marines, ending their occupation in 1933, turned over the command of the Guardia to him. The Guardia shot scores -and brought peace. Meanwhile, by "buying from heirs" Somoza acquired coffee fincas and cattle ranches, parlayed them into a fortune estimated at $60 million-some $20 million more than Nicaragua's annual budget. He reputedly owned...
This year alone 22 companies will either build or expand plants along the waterway. Reynolds Metals is expanding; so is Alcoa, with a new $45 million aluminum plant at Point Comfort, Texas. Estimates are that the surging chemical and petrochemical industries will shoot up 70% by 1960, and the Gulf Coast will get much of the expansion. Texas alone will add $260 million worth of new plants in the next two years. Firestone Tire & Rubber is building a huge chemical plant at Orange, Texas; Dow Chemical is expanding its Freeport. Texas plant by $45 million, while Gulf Oil, Foster Wheeler...
...follow up all possible clues, we shall eventually reach the desired goals." Often it was not easy. One dark season more than 20 people were killed in picket-line skirmishes at the Rockefeller-controlled Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. In Manhattan angry crowds howled for J.D.R. Jr.'s blood: "Shoot him down like a dog!" J.D.R. Jr., first reacting instinctively to defend his Colorado managers, later went out to Colorado with a bright young Canadian labor-relations expert named W. L. Mackenzie King (who became his lifelong friend and longtime Prime Minister of Canada), found out about company towns, came...
...many calories as 1,500 tons of coal. A modest amount of U-235 could, so far as energy is concerned, propel a commodious space cruiser to the moon and back. But energy is not enough. A uranium-burning rocket motor would have no products of combustion to shoot out of its tail pipe, and without some massive material to jettison, the motor would have no thrust...
...Book. In Trapani, Sicily, after he tried to commit suicide and missed, Giuseppe Cavallo was jailed, told it is illegal to shoot oneself without a firearms permit...