Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Council group expects to report the end of April, and in the meantime workmen will make plans for remodeling the upstairs rooms so that they will be ready for occupancy in the fall...
...professional fighting men have sought martyrdom more insistently than gaunt, intense Captain John G. Crommelin, U.S.N. It was Airman Crommelin who set off the acrimonious Navy hearings last fall, encouraged an utterly unfounded charge of Air Force corruption in B-36 procurement, surreptitiously handed confidential Navy correspondence to the press, and obstreperously demanded a public court martial. Severely reprimanded and exiled to San Francisco last fall, Crommelin refused to be silent. Two or three times a week, from Reno to Los Angeles, before Rotary clubs and businessmen's luncheons, he defiantly reiterated his charges that the Navy was being...
...Morning of Dec. 4. A powdery snow began to fall outside. Under an old-fashioned tin ceiling, in the steam-heated courtroom, the twelve men and alternate sat down to consider the case. The trial had drawn the attention of half the world. On hand were photographers, newsmen, feature writers (among them, Novelists Fannie Hurst and John O'Hara), reporters from London and Paris newspapers. Dr. Sander, lean-faced, pale and expressionless, his busy and respected career interrupted, sat inside the courtroom rail with his wife, the mother of his three children...
...former Netherlands East Indies, and rayon and cotton cord from Belgium and The Netherlands. Another potent argument was the undisclosed sum Goodyear offered for a 45-acre site 18 miles north of Luxembourg City, the duchy's capital. The land belonged to Grand Duchess Charlotte herself. Last fall she agreed to sell...
...King's Men. The sensational rise & fall of a grass-roots demagogue; produced, directed and scripted by Robert Rossen (TIME...