Word: river
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...never spent a night in jail. Unlike Capone, whom he eventually succeeded as grand vizier of Chicago crime, Tony cleverly paid his taxes on enough income from gambling and "miscellaneous sources" (more than $1,000,000 between 1940 and 1955) to justify his $500,000 mansion in suburban River Forest, Ill. and his lavish vacations in Florida. Even when the feds started pressing for a more detailed accounting of his sources of income, Tony had an angle: he went Capone one better and got himself a job. It was possibly the worst mistake he ever made...
...docks. Ships flying a score of flags sail from Hong Kong to the far parts of the earth-Abidjan, Khorramshahr, Miri, Zanzibar. Nearly 20,000 Chinese junks and sampans drift over its waters, and green-painted barges marked with the yellow stars of Red China slip down the Pearl River from Canton...
...Chinese mandarins was gold, and the China trade might have drained all the gold out of Europe if shrewd merchants like Jardine, Matheson, Dent and Joseph Henry had not found a substitute currency in opium grown in British India. They were soon landing the drug in the Pearl River estuary at the rate of 6,000,000 lbs. a year. They defended themselves morally by calling opium "a harmless luxury and precious medicine except to those who abuse it," while taking the business line that if they did not sell it to the Chinese, someone else would...
...River. Nesmeyanov is a world-famed organic chemist, and certainly capable of dreaming impressive scientific dreams. But the book that Komsomolskaya Pravda's reporters assembled is singularly meager in scientific imagination. One chapter predicts for the 21st century the mechanization of mines-which is already an accomplished fact in many non-Communist countries. Another tells about hydroelectric stations very run-of-the-river examples, that will be built in 50 years in Siberia. A chapter on surgery describes techniques and operations that have been standard in the outside world for many years. Almost the only unfamiliar glimpse...
FAIRMOUNT PARK in Philadelphia is a green oasis of wooded hills and bridle paths stretched along the banks of the Schuylkill (pronounced Skookl) River. It has a zoo, the the Philadelphia Museum of Art, mansions from colonial times, some buildings put up for the 1876 Centennial, a duplicate of the Rodin Museum in France and an excellent institute of applied science named for Benjamin Franklin. Covering 4,000 acres, it is one of the world's biggest municipal parks. With all that, Fairmount's most appealing distinction is as an outstanding outdoor show of sculpture- a vast...