Word: took
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Then in 1938, he took his turn as Vice...
Mindy's start was not promising: the leader of The Bronx's James Monroe High School band said she was "not good enough" to sing with his outfit. Mindy believed him, meekly took a job as salesgirl in a Manhattan candy shop. After the Christmas rush, she went to Miami to visit her aunt. A nightclub owner heard her singing with the rest of her party, offered her a job. A scared 17, she answered: "I have to go back to work." But work at the candy shop was never the same again. Mindy quit, and her parents...
...months later, wearing a gingham dress, flat shoes and no makeup, Mindy landed a singing spot at New Rochelle's Glen Island Casino. In December 1946, Paul Whiteman signed her, took her on a nationwide tour with his National Guard radio show...
...William learned oil chemistry at Glasgow's Royal Technical College, worked as an office boy in his father's oil shale company. In 1919, Anglo-Iranian (then called the Anglo-Persian Oil Co.) took over his father's company and "Willie came with the shale." He moved up to a directorship, then became Anglo-Iranian's deputy chairman. In 1931 he helped form Shell-Mex & B.P., Ltd. to market Anglo-Iranian and Shell products in Britain, and set up the Consolidated Refineries, Ltd. subsidiary which built such huge Anglo-Iranian installations as the refinery at Haifa...
Annoyed by Mahmout's low bidding and troubled by a dull market in U.S. mules, the U.S. traders raised such a ruckus that EGA took a closer look at the deal. It finally told Mahmout he could sell the mules, provided he bought them through established U.S. mule dealers. To make matters worse for him, EGA refused to pay his profit in dollars. He wotfld have to take that in Athens, in Greek drachmas. As for the mules, Ferd Owen got half the order (3,750) and Parker Jameson got the other half...