Word: connor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...camp at the Siglo Veinte (20th Century) tin mine, 12,000 feet high in the Bolivian Andes, Mrs. Elena O'Connor was preparing lunch. Her husband Tom, a Pasadena, Calif, engineer employed at the Patiño-owned mine, was visiting another U.S. engineer next door. Through her window Mrs. O'Connor saw 15 Indian miners rush to the neighbor's house and kick in the door. Minutes later the Indians came out dragging the two Americans, whose faces were blotched with blood...
Elena O'Connor ran to her husband, clung to him so desperately that she was dragged along with the men to the miners' union hall. Before long, 14 other engineers and foremen, including six U.S. citizens, were brought to the hall. The kidnaping of the engineers was part of a plan to force the return of Mine Union Boss Juan Lechin, who had been banished to Chile along with 19 of his aides on a charge of plotting to overthrow the government...
Some of the miners wanted to kill their captives. Mrs. O'Connor stood on a chair, tried to convince the miners that the foremen were not responsible for Lechin's banishment. She got nowhere...
Rifles & Dynamite. As she was talking, a miner aimed a gun at her from a window outside. Her husband rushed to protect her; a bullet stopped him. Other miners fired; Tom O'Connor got 42 bullets in his body, was battered to a pulp with iron bars. U.S. Engineer Albert Krefting was also killed; Mrs. O'Connor was badly mauled before she escaped...
Grosset's President John O'Connor took on the job of running Wonder Books himself. O'Connor has always been a man with a sharp eye for selling. As vice president of Chicago's Quarrie Corp., he helped sell a million copies of the Book of Knowledge. At Grosset, it was he who started Bantam Books. O'Connor thinks that the potential market for Wonder Books (which have hard, washable-plastic covers) is 100 million copies. To cash in on it, he expects to increase the list of 16 titles (including Mother Goose, Peter Rabbit...