Word: receipts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Keeping the Receipt. These were tough charges indeed for West Pointer Nickerson, who earned a master's degree at the California Institute of Technology, won a chestful of medals for gallantry in action in World War II. Nickerson, moving upward through Army Ordnance to his big job at Redstone Arsenal, shared many Army officers' gnawing fear that the Army was being shouldered more and more to the sidelines of the U.S. defense setup. Specifically, Nickerson felt that the Army's Jupiter, a 1,500-mile intermediate-range ballistic missile, was more promising than the Air Force...
...America (both employed at Redstone), Editor Bergaust of Missiles and Rockets, and to Washington Columnist Drew Pearson. "We took one look at it," said Bergaust later, "and decided we didn't want the stuff around. So we mailed it back to Nickerson, registered. Fortunately, we kept the receipt...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art elected Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Sr., 75, widow of the art-amassing publisher, as a benefactress, announced the simultaneous receipt of donations from the Hearst Foundation: three 17th century British interiors, some old chunks of European architecture, a Roman copy in marble of a 5th century B.C. statue of Hermes...
...receipt of two already promised anonymous contributions which will cover one third of the fund...
...counsel, Mervyn Griffith-Jones, told the court, "that she failed to surrender earlier." During the four hours of testimony that followed, Nina, wearing the same fawn-colored gabardine in which she was arrested, stoutly insisted that she had paid for the hats, although she could not remember getting a receipt. The C. & A. store detectives insisted just as stoutly that she had scooped them up under cover of a paper bag from another store. Citing this "remarkable conflict of evidence," Barrister Griffith-Jones put the question directly to Nina: "Did you steal any of those hats?" "Nyet," said Nina Ponomareva...