Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reparations; from little Bukowsko they demanded one million zlotys. When the 3,000 villagers raised only 300,000 zlotys, the raiders burned all but eleven of Bukowsko's 400 cottages, John Kinglarski, who used to mine coal near Kingston, Pa., said the Ukrainians had burned his plow and stolen two horses and a cow for which he had paid 8,000 zlotys ($80). Kinglarski, who was wrapped in burlap bags, waved an old U.S. passport. "I had beautiful clothes in America," he said...
...things had happened in the 16 months since James Caesar Petrillo last negotiated a big union contract. Congress had sent the President a bill calculated to curb his "coercive practices" in radio. Walter Reuther, John L. Lewis and other labor leaders had stolen his tricks or invented new ones. Were others taking James Caesar's place? Did the booing bother him? Last week in Manhattan, representatives of eight major motion-picture studios got the answer: Petrillo was improving all the time...
...curt statement, the Embassy charged that attempts had been made "to cast a shadow and to discredit" members of its diplomatic staff. Cried the Embassy: "The sources of this slanderous information are the false statements of the former employe . . . Gouzenko, who has stolen money from the Embassy and who is indictable for the committed crime in case of his return to the U.S.S.R...
Langdon Warner '03, Curator of the Oriental Department of the Fogg Art Museum, sailed from Seattle Tuesday to remain in Tokyo for three or four months as the only civilian member of the Commission for Arts and Monuments which will attempt to locate and identify Oriental are lost or stolen during...
...those Americans who hope the bomb will remain a U.S. monopoly, the authors have little encouragement. Physicists Frederick Seitz, of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, and Hans Bethe of Cornell University believe that almost any industrial nation can start producing bombs in about five years. Stolen "secrets" will not be necessary, for there is no essential secret...