Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nitroglycerin, neither side seemed to yearn for a showdown battle. For all their public outcry against him, the big men of the music industry respected, and in some cases, admired, Caesar Petrillo. He was honest, and until his mind was set, he was always open to persuasion. His word was as good as gold...
...This is very possible," commented Dr. Bock. "I know myself for a fact of more than one student who was unable to read a word of the printed test...
...Japan last week where the interests of God and Mammon were becoming entangled. Shinsho Temple's plump, leathery Abbot Araki had to journey 40 miles to Tokyo to find out where his temple and its 350 employees stood under the new Labor Standards Act. So far his only word of encouragement has come from Temple Warehouse Keeper Shigeru Shinohara, head of the union of which 252 temple workers (including all 22 priests) are members. "We want regular wages," Shigeru said, "but no regular eight-hour working days. Sometimes a whole delegation of believers shows up late at night...
Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza passed the word: one nation after another was recognizing the government of his uncle, President Victor Román y Reyes, which he put in power last August without an election. He listed them: Costa Rica, Honduras, the Dominican Republic of Fellow-Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay. If enough of the American republics gave him the right hand of fellowship, he felt that the U.S. would follow. That would again make him a member in good standing in the Pan-American nations club...
Last week from Pittsburgh, where Mike runs his scattered ventures from the Benedum-Trees skyscraper, came word of a still newer Benedum venture. His recently formed Melben Oil Co., which had spent $1,000,000 exploring for oil along Texas' coast, leased 120,480 acres of tideland area from Texas for $1,383,467. From a specially equipped $500,000 float, Mike Benedum will soon start drilling under the Gulf of Mexico...