Word: untillable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pistol Packer. Last week Gould got his first real taste of the agrarian democrats' medicine-Chinese Communist staffers locked him in his office until midnight after he rejected their wage demands. Next day, when he wrote a story about the row, the workers refused to print the Post unless...
Perish to Death. A Kentucky Baptist preacher's son, Channing Cope went to sea at 15 and didn't get his shore legs back until he was 26; later he was by turns pressagent, lawyer, radio broadcaster and farmer. When Cope put down his first payment on rundown...
How long was RFC going to keep pouring millions into Lustron? Gunderson didn't know, but he thought RFC should keep on until everyone was satisfied that Lustron was either a success or a flop. So far, it had been far from a success.
Obligingly, RFC put up another $10 million last July. By February, they again needed more. By the time RFC had put in $7,000,000-for a grand total of $32.5 million-it had embarked on the biggest government peacetime venture in prefabricated housing. But that was not the end...
*The Second Spanish Republic lasted from April 1931 (abdication of King Alfonso XIII), until March 28, 1939 (surrender of Madrid to General Franco).