Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hill, in whose house Bugsy was murdered. They finally reached her in Paris for her opinions. Sample: "It looks so bad to have a thing like that happen in your house." The United Press found her looking pretty chipper, with a new French boy friend and a pair of silver slippers. But Hearst's I.N.S. had her afloat in tears of grief. Both apparently neglected to ask Virginia how Bugsy happened to have a golden key to her house...
...days a Navy court-martial in Washington (five captains and two commanders) heard, in secret, the case against Lieut. Commander Edward Neal Little, 39-year-old Naval Academy graduate who won the Silver Star for gallantry during Corregidor's last days. Behind the case-a deep hatred of Little by some Army, Navy and Marine Corps enlisted men who had been his fellow prisoners of war at Camp 17, Omuta, where the Japanese worked American P.W.s in the coal mines...
...Silver Lining. Foreign silver in New York dropped 5? an ounce, bringing the price down to 59¾?, lowest since September 1945. Yet the U.S. Treasury, thanks to the Senate's Silver Bloc, must buy up all newly mined silver offered by U.S. mines at 90.5? an ounce. Taxpayers take the loss...
...membership snowballed. Army officials, alarmed by U.P.W.A.'s growth and embarrassed by the old Jim Crow system, were ready to meet the union's demands, at least half way. By last week the union claimed these gains: 1) removal of the hateful gold and silver signs in public places; 2) an order admitting Panamanians to equal terms in civil service exams; 3) hourly wage hikes of 2? to 6?; 4) a 40-hour week; 5) improved vacation privileges; 6) more overtime...
Undisturbed Pictures. Stieglitz' silver mane became the central planet of a worshipful cult. Lewis Mumford, Waldo Frank, Sherwood Anderson, Dorothy Norman and Gertrude Stein all sat at his feet...