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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...customers was a wealthy Spanish cattleman named Ramon Samovia; Yant confided to Samovia that oil had just been discovered near some property he owned in Placerita Canyon-he would be rich as soon as he dug up enough money to sink a well himself. Samovia bought into his scheme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: All's Well that Ends Well | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...back broken, the old warrior settled slowly into the trough, sea water surging through her open ports. But she would not sink. A tug was ordered in to ram. Still the Implacable stayed afloat. For three hours the old ship lay awash, her gunwales flush with the waves, her flags still flying. Then, as darkness fell, her old timbers parted and she went under. Victory's victory was at last complete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cock of the Walk | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Schumacher had misjudged the German temper: he thought that Germans would reject the terms which Adenauer got from the Allies. But in West Germany last week, there was general approval of Adenauer's agreement. The Germans seemed satisfied with what they got. The lesson had begun to sink in that, after all, it was Germany which had lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: A Good European | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...bush pilot was capable of such villainy. Some guessed the brass had come from the fittings of a Yukon River steamer, the worn gold from a forgotten prospector's cache. But geologists announced that bedrock at Fishwheel was 200 feet down and that all gold was bound to sink. Nobody solved the mystery. The boom collapsed. Disgusted men began flying home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALASKA: Gold Rush | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Everything But ... In Philadelphia, Herbert Lee Bailey was sentenced to jail for stealing a kitchen sink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 10, 1949 | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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