Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name stuck. Prospector Martin Jorgensen, who went in after gold in 1910, was also found dead. The bones of another prospector, Yukon Fisher, were discovered near a creek in 1928. Three trappers vanished in the valley. In 1945 Woodsman Walter J. Tully came on the body of an Ontario miner, Ernest Savard, in his sleeping bag, his head all but severed...
...stock issue in the present market (even if the issue could be floated in the current bad market, it would probably bring in only half the money T.W.A., needed). T.W.A.'s best hope of getting $40,000,000 seemed to be to get it from RFC. And RFC stuck to its previous decision (TIME, Jan. 6) not to lend T.W.A. a cent until Hughes agreed to put his stock into a voting trust. If Hughes balked at that the battle would be on again...
Hard-working Special Counsel Clark Clifford had stuck to his desk over the holidays, hammering together the President's annual message on the state of the Union. But it needed a final polishing before it could be taken up to the Hill on Jan. 6. And the President also had a budget message to deliver on the 8th, his recommendations to accompany the Economic Council's report (TIME, Dec. 30) to be given two days later...
...Pate, who had won his gamble: "I've always said Kramer and Schroeder at their peak are the best doubles team in the world. They very nearly reached that peak today." Ted Schroeder was now free to go back to Glendale, Calif, to sell refrigerators, a job he stuck to most of last summer when other U.S. tennis stars were playing tournaments. Said he: "A fellow's got to quit this tennis sometime and get down to business...
...Barea's self-command, worn down by the daily bloody destruction of children and women in Madrid's streets, finally broke. A fistful of quivering brains, stuck to a plate-glass window after a shell burst (he was escorting the visiting Duchess of Atholl at the time), shocked and nauseated him. He could no longer deal coolly with the bureaucratic intrigues that entangled him. In early 1938, he got the Government's permission to leave Spain with his wife. They crossed the frontier from Barcelona to France, to live in poverty and write...