Word: 31st
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winter's land and sea disasters cast more dark shadows over the home front last week as Britons struggled gamely through their 31st month of war. In a series of belt-tightening moves...
After that the battlefront settled down. Communiques late in the week told of sporadic raids, light action. The reports were only another version of the slogan of the 31st Infantry (see below). The slogan...
...Most colorful of the Bataan defenders is the all-American 31st Infantry, under leathery Colonel Charles L. Steel. Of all Colonel Steel's "Foreign Legion characters," the men reserved a top place for 2nd Lieutenant John Flynn, recently commissioned after 33 years of Army service. A sad-eyed Mr. Chips, Flynn delights his men by mixing tobacco juice and contempt for Jap marksmanship on scouting trips into the brush...
...Other particularly able scouts are American Indians in the 31st. One is Corporal Peter Flame, a 200-pound Yuma, Ariz, former football player and champion boxer, who bashfully hangs his head when reporting another sniper potted. Another is tall, lean Joe Longknife from a Montana reservation. On a recent raid he rose up out of tall grass, killed ten Japs with 16 shots, dispersed the rest with hand grenades. When he was a youngster Joe listened to tales of raiding parties told him by his father. Old Longknife, and his grandfather, Old Old Longknife...
Same week, members of the National Retail Dry Goods Assn. gathered in Manhattan for their 31st annual meeting, 6,000 strong, to discuss wartime retail problems. They knew their record 1941 prosperity was not likely to last out 1942. They had been on a sort of spree themselves, selling the fat off a nation long pouchy with surpluses. Their 1942 problems: 1) to find enough goods to sell; 2) not to be caught overstocked by a reaction when hoarders go home sated, or when other consumers are kept home by higher prices and taxes...