Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Josepha and her son, following Anders' army to the Middle East, traveled to the Caspian Sea, across it in a cattle boat to Persia. Then a British transport took the Olechnys and other Polish refugees through the Persian Gulf, around Arabia and down to Mozambique. From there they went by train to a camp in Southern Rhodesia. Later they were sent to a new refugee camp near Mount Kilimanjaro in Central Africa...
That night he and his crony went to Pramote's lavish house. Pramote and a Ceylonese friend had just come back from the races at the Royal Turf Club. The Dwarf twirled his two Lugers, sarcastically asked Pramote: "Can you spare 300 deals?" (about $15). Pramote said his wife had all his money; she was out. The Dwarf waited. When she arrived, on a three-wheeled Siamese pedicab, he grabbed her purse; it contained only keys, a compact and some change. The Dwarf shot her in the chest, wounding her seriously...
...Louis, Brooklyn Dodger Pitcher Elwin ("Preacher") Roe wondered whether he should have invited his father, Dr. Charles E. Roe, to come up from Viola, Ark. to watch him work. The Preacher went to the showers after six innings against the Cardinals, and father Roe went home minus $80 lifted by a ballpark pickpocket...
...Thompson went to LIFE in October 1937. In 1942 he joined the Army as an armored force captain, was transferred to the Air Force to found and edit Impact, a LiFE-like confidential air intelligence magazine. He wound up in 1944 as a lieutenant colonel in charge of German air force intelligence at SHAEF, was awarded the Legion of Merit and the Order of the British Empire...
Although more than 100 manufacturers were making TV sets, 90% of the sales still went to the industry's Big Eight (Admiral, Crosley, Du Mont, Emerson, General Electric, Motorola, Philco and RCA). Last winter both big & small manufacturers were booming confidently ahead in the expectation that 1949 was going to be a 2,500,000-set year. This spring they crashed into a roadblock of buyer resistance. By last week, many of the smaller companies were hanging on by their fingernails...