Word: children
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Collectively the Niemans boast a total of 19 children. Their families are living in houses in and around Cambridge, and the journalists condemn local rents as "higher than anywhere else...
...time Artie's plane had landed at St. Louis, the airline knew the awful truth: Artie Biggs had cracked the system which had cleared 9,000,000 transcontinental passengers without a stowaway. He was hauled off to a children's shelter, got 50? from a St. Louis cop en route, and shipped home the following day to his widowed mother, who was not amused. "You know," Artie told reporters who met him at La Guardia, "I'll probably get spanked for this...
When the Japanese invasion drew nearer, Ai Wei-teh shepherded more than 100 homeless children on foot to a representative of Mme. Chiang Kai-shek's, a 27-day journey away. But Gladys Aylward has no memory of their safe arrival. She collapsed from exhaustion just before the end, and was taken delirious to a hospital. This year, the China Inland Mission, which once told the London parlormaid that she was unfit to be a missionary, bought her a round-trip ticket to England...
...sons Henry, Benson and William, and her daughter, Mrs. Josephine Ford. On the basis of their holdings, the dividends were: $24,358 to Clara Ford, who holds about 3.1% of all the voting stock outstanding; $64,719 to Mrs. Edsel Ford, who holds 8.3%; and $258,879 to her children, who together have...
...month in the Los Angeles area alone and sales are increasing at the rate of 1,000 gallons a month. Theodora is mapping plans to distribute the water over an eleven state Western area, hopes soon to tap a nationwide market. Says she: while the stuff is fine for children's teeth, "it also goes wonderful with Scotch...