Word: downed
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Reporter Pickering had heard enough. The building at Milwaukee and Cass was obviously the headquarters of the C.I.O's United Automobile Workers and the Big Guy was its hard-hitting President Walter Reuther, who was cut down by a shotgun blast fired through his kitchen window 20 months ago...
One Clue. The news of the discovery touched off an immediate uproar. The union added another $25,000 reward (to a total of nearly $250,000) for information about the assailants of the Reuther brothers - Walter, whose right arm is still crippled by the attack on him, and Victor, education...
It all started with an advertising man's dream-a vision of a helpless, pliable throng, ears open and guards down, known in the trade as a "captive audience." Trapped in Manhattan's cavernous Grand Central Terminal, where each day 500,000 persons swarm to & fro, was the...
Rain had been beating down on the country around Thousand Oaks, Calif, for three days. At Louis Goebel's Wild Animal Farm it turned the grounds to hay-littered mud, dripped from red circus wagons, blew coldly through a rusty cage in which two shaggy lions paced and turned...
It was probably the climax in a week of unrelenting semi-deification bestowed on Joseph Stalin during the celebrations of his 70th birthday. Throughout, a super-lifesized head of the celebrant grinned down from the heavens above the Kremlin upon his worshiping subjects. It was quite a nice trick, too...