Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revolution broke out in Panama, the U.S. cruiser Nashville and the gunboat Dixie guarded the entrance to Colón's harbor, to prevent landing of Colombian troops. The U.S. promptly recognized Panama's independence. Within a month the new republic granted the U.S. control over a ten-mile strip of land that was to become the Canal Zone...
Jackie's idea of a fine way to spend a night off is to go to bed early. He averages ten hours' sleep. He likes neither music nor dancing. "You know," he says, "colored people do not like music and dancing any better than white people . . . the white people just think they do." At home, he carefully takes his vitamin pills, spends a lot of time baby-sitting with his nine-month-old son, and according to his wife (whom he met at U.C.L.A.), always has his face buried in a paper. Like most ballplayers, he soaks...
Mexican politicos like to quote the law used to expropriate some $200,000,000 worth of U.S.-owned oil properties: "All hydrocarbons are the direct, inalienable and impressible property of the nation." They fight shy of mentioning just how much the expropriation cost Mexico. Ten years after expropriation, Pemex, the Government oil monopoly, still loses an estimated $3 million a month. To keep up Mexico's comparatively low oil production, known fields are being pumped too fast for maximum extraction; they will be exhausted in 20 years. Only a handful of new wells have been drilled this year...
...spent the money as fast as he earned it. He had a $200,000 estate in Maryland and a ten-room suite on Riverside Drive. He smoked eight-inch monogrammed cigarets and was always accompanied by two huge Great Danes ($10,000 each). He was one of the first romantic actors to get his fan mail by the bale, and it always included several hundred amorous propositions...
...eared, sardonic lowan of 42, Harvard cum laude Author Duncan spent ten years on Gus the Great and was nearly broke much of the time. An itinerant writer, teacher and Chautauqua actor, he is the author of three previous novels, all poor sellers. He retired to a trailer to finish Gus the Great, wandering through the West and Southwest. When the money ran low, Duncan hacked out short stories on a 1924 Corona; his wife, Actea, took a secretarial job. The Duncans' first purchase with their new riches: a shiny new Chrysler convertible...