Word: webbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, after thirteen and a half years' work, Manhattan's Irving Trust Co. finally came to the end of the incredibly complicated financial web of forgeries, theft, fraudulent bookkeeping, and companies which existed only in Kreugers imagination. As trustee of the bankrupt International Match Corp., an American concern and biggest of 140-odd subsidiaries of the huge holding company, A/B Kreuger & Toll; Irving Trust submitted its final, 171-page report on its stewardship. The box score...
...Coal mines were operating at a third of capacity. On the farms the harvest was good-a ray of hope for a nation that expects a hungry winter. Everywhere the people-farmers, workers, professionals, politicians-busily organized into cooperatives, unions, guilds, blocs, all woven into a Government-controlled web...
Europe's 175,000 Wends (also known as Lusatian Serbs) are an ancient Slavic people who settled in Germany more than 1,000 years ago. Many of them now live on islands in the Spree River and its web of channels; they are chiefly eel fishermen and cucumber growers (a common Spree-wald salutation is: "Have a cucumber...
...fact was that WPB had no intention of freeing industry at one sweep from its tight web of controls. Instead the controls will be lifted a strand at a time. This decision was made when it became plain that no one man knew how many U.S. soldiers in Europe would have to be completely re-equipped before they were transferred to the war in the Pacific...
...railroad flat in Grandma Lang's home. It was full of beaded curtains, canaries, chairs with claw feet and red leather seats, gaslights, knickknacks, onyx clocks and vases filled with cattails. From an upstairs window Marvin could look down upon flower gardens and a spider's web of clotheslines forever hung with grey underwear. His father, who then had charge of the hardware section of Bohan's department store, was a Republican with firm convictions about religion: "Live and let live is my motto. A man can be a better Christian than most and not go near...