Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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America's Town Meeting (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC & ABC-TV). Economists look at the state of the Union...
...with greenbacks, began arriving in New York. A Staten Island bank which had lent him money got $5,000; another got $6,000. His friends began getting money, too. FBI men learned that before leaving he had visited his parents' Staten Island cottage while they were out of town. The agents went in, found $14,975 in two envelopes, and a note, ". . . Enclosed is money . . ." Altogether, from one place and another, they recovered $76,355. Despite his expensive mode of life and his promising job, Crowe got a salary of only $6,500 a year; he was deep...
Figueres was too quick for him. Pulling out of his rambling frame palace, he rushed to grab the most commanding site in town, the five-story Gran Hotel Costa Rica, then set up headquarters in the Pacific Railway station. Isolating the forts, he laid siege to the troops inside. Some rebels quickly deserted. Thereupon Figueres attacked and Cardona immediately surrendered...
...Biggest Thief in Town (by Dalton Trumbo; produced by Lee Sabinson) sets out to make a gay evening of a ghoulish subject. The scene is an undertaking parlor in a small Colorado town. When the rich man of the town is proclaimed dead, the undertaker, being broke, is at first resigned to the fact that the costly funeral will go to a firm in Denver. Then, being drunk, he blithely kidnaps the corpse. This is merely the start of the festivities, which really get going when it turns out in the second act that the dead man is not quite...
...Fido was put into operation at Los Angeles Airport, which is closed down 5% of the time by soupy weather. After a round of speeches and fanfare, Mayor Fletcher Bowron tripped a switch that turned on the 392 burners. Billows of black smoke rose and drifted towards the nearby town of Inglewood; observers were drenched with oil droplets blown out of the burners before igniting; automobile windshields were spattered with grime...