Word: shops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right to use such famed News comic strips as Dick Tracy and Little Orphan Annie, he answered: "If you think you're going to get our comic strips for use within our circulation area, you're crazy." In a drafty Hempstead garage she set up shop, using an old press and six Linotype machines bought for $50,000 from a defunct daily. As her first issue of 15,000 papers rolled off the press, a staffer came up to his ink-smeared boss and said that the paper looked "pretty good." With a dissatisfaction that has always driven...
...because, she said, "some guys get fresh." After a few drinks one evening, she used the hatchet on a 71-year-old tailor, picked his wallet and went home. "I felt easy and happy and calm." she said later. "Then I remembered I had left my hatchet in the shop. I dressed and went back . . . He was still gurgling. I hit him on the head some more until he was quiet...
...decision to step down from office. After a moment of stunned incredulity, Rio was caught in a vortex of emotions. Excited groups formed and violence flared. Mobs ripped down anti-Vargas campaign posters, whirled off to attack offices of opposition newspapers, and finally hit out indiscriminately at shop windows and private cars...
...first test mechanics unbolted the combustion-chamber caps, ran to a nearby furnace, waited for the caps to get almost red-hot, then ran back to bolt them into place. Heat from the caps ignited the fuel in the chamber; after the engine fired and ran, the entire shop staff retired to a pub to celebrate...
Under the Oaks. Mendès-France calls his program le New Deal null He worked most of it out himself. Back from Geneva, Mendès set up shop outside Paris in a hunting lodge in the forest of Marly. Outdoors, under the oaks, Mendès met his two economic brain-trusters: Georges Boris, 66, and young Simon Nora, 33. He looked over blueprints proposed by Finance Minister Edgar Faure, and reworded by Boris and Nora. "I seem to find nothing but old projects," he grumbled. "They are neither original nor daring." He wanted a program of "total...