Word: short
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With such profits available for bribes, no crackdown short of abolishing the free zone is likely to work. Aramburu made a token start by banning importation of a few luxury items to Patagonia. Last week customs announced the arrest of three leaders of one car-smuggling ring. But in Puerto Madryn the steamer went on unloading the jewelry, 5,000 cases of whisky, 1,000 cases of rum, bales of Brussels lace, crates of fireworks. As every Patagonian knew, such choice merchandise was not going to the goats...
...scrapers, hundreds of other tools and weapons. In the three highest sandstone layers, the tools were all made of mylonite, a fine-grained igneous rock; the fourth layer contained tools of quartz, and among them were bones of strange animals: a giant hippopotamus, pigs 6 ft. tall, and a short-necked giraffe-like creature with antlers...
...were pleasing. "One," says O'Malley, "was between a cemetery and a large body of water. I pointed out that we weren't likely to get many customers from either place." With $5,000,000 in his pocket and no place to spend it, with only a short-term lease on Ebbets Field and no place else to go, O'Malley began an unabashed scramble for a new playground...
...Larry MacPhail resigned as general manager and went into the Army as a lieutenant colonel, O'Malley was hired as the Dodgers' attorney. He succeeded no less a personage than Wendell Willkie, and he obviously saw more opportunity in baseball than Willkie ever dreamed of. Within a short time, O'Malley was loading up heavily with Dodger stock...
...Hire. Strikebreaker Bloor Schleppey (Bloor was his mother's maiden name*) was born in Crawfordsville, Ind., got a law degree from Indiana University in 1912, then broke into the newspaper business in 1916 on the short-lived Milwaukee Daily News (Schleppey claims he was managing editor; oldtimers remember him as a reporter). In the next years, Schleppey worked for the New York World and the New Orleans Times-Picayune, put in a term as a Washington reporter for the Hearst chain. In 1934 he went to work for the Indianapolis Publishers Association and started his career as a labor...