Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toughest Schriber job was painting the buildings at the Climax (Colo.) molybdenum mines in the winter of 1939-40. Many of Nate's painting crew could not stand the 12,000-ft. altitude and 35-below-zero temperature. Once, on treacherous Loveland Pass, Nate's car was blown off the road, and only a luckily placed tree saved him from a plunge into a chasm...
...Damnation." The juries' verdicts are often a source of astonishment and dismay to 305-lb. George Bradford Simpson, divorced, the ex-soap-opera "doctor" and free-lance writer who thought up, oversees and half-owns the show. His score on guessing the decisions is close to zero. One decision which bothered him occurred in the case of a wife whose husband admitted that he loved another woman but wanted her to stay on while he pursued his new affair. She asked the jury what to do. They voted unanimously in favor of her staying...
Last year's spring catch was zero. Last week, in streams around Michigan's Green Bay and Huron's Saginaw Bay, with smelts making belated spawning runs, men, women & children dipped up hundreds with their nets. Dr. John Van Oosten of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in charge of investigating the smelt situation, estimated that the normal Great Lakes smelt population (1942 catch: 5,000,000 lb. ) would be restored in four years...
...Sorry. In the South Pacific a dive-bombing Japanese pilot threw his Zero into a vertical dive, released his time-fused bomb, caught up with it, was blown to bits...
...heard around 8 p.m. daily, Australian time, short or medium wave, on a 65-minute show designed for U.S. armed forces in the South Pacific. Her specialties, assisted by a male announcer who sounds not unlike Elmer Davis, are News from the American Home Front and the jazzical Zero Hour. News purports to be a rehash of U.S. domestic broadcasts. It is angled, but has some basis in fact...