Word: skeletonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that RFC has a new and vigorous boss, a lot of skeletons are coming out of the closet. Last week, Administrator W. Stuart Symington opened the door on what looked like the biggest, ugliest skeleton of all: RFC's $87 million loan to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, largest ever given to any U.S. railroad, during the regime of Jesse Jones. In the last eight years, the B. & 0. has paid back only $6,800,000, although the road is fat with profits. (Other roads have paid back 80% of their RFC loans...
Experts are now working to assemble the bones of a young woman which were discovered Monday after lying in the woods for over seven months. The technicians hope to get "an almost exact picture" of the five foot- seven victim after the skeleton is reconstructed...
Police, meanwhile, have rejected the possibility that one missing woman, thought perhaps to be the victim, was the murdered person. According to doctors at the Dental School, her dental charts do not match those of the skeleton...
...target of this invading army is just beyond Ellenton: a 200,000-acre site spotted with hundreds of hustling trucks, steam shovels and cement mixers. There the steel skeleton of a headquarters building is already rising-the focus for sightseers who come from miles around to see what the Du Ponts are doing. What E. I. du Pont de Nemours is doing is worth considerable attention. It is building the Government's $600 million plant to make the components for the hydrogen bomb. "You can't tell no lies about this thing," said an awestruck sharecropper. "This thing...
...Skeleton In the Closet. In Columbus, Ohio, a deputy sheriff saw John Dyer carefully signal before making a right turn in his automobile, stopped him to present one of the city's safety awards, discovered he had no driver's license, hauled him into court...