Word: skeletonization
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...Exhumed Skeleton. The real reason for Chapman's action was that Columnist Drew Pearson had dug out, and showed Chapman, Naval Intelligence reports on skulduggery at the Harvey Machine Co. during World War II. Chapman could have found out the same facts if he had made any real investigation of the company before awarding it one of rearmament's biggest loans...
Peace, if it comes, will find Korea's cities dead. In Seoul the gutted, white-domed capitol of the Republic of Korea stands like a skeleton among the city's ruins. Suwon's huge, half-destroyed gate, once a monument to Korea's kings, guards only rubble now. Fifty cities and towns in South Korea have been destroyed...
...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...
...skeleton was first glimpsed by New Hampshire's Republican Senator Charles W. Tobey four years ago. As chairman of a Senate subcommittee probing RFC, he wrote a blistering report accusing RFC and B. & O. officials of evading payment of the loans by "collusive" bankruptcy. But Tobey failed to get the committee to agree and the report was never released. Last week the report came out after an ex-Tobey aide, Randolph Phillips, a Washington financial consultant, reportedly leaked key sections to Herald Tribune Reporter Jack Steele and Columnist Drew Pearson...
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...