Word: adds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...replace an air force of World War II planes. The present 55-group Air Force is organized as 13 heavy bomber groups, 24 fighter groups, three light-bomber groups, eight troop-carrier groups, seven miscellaneous groups including reconnaissance, mapping and weather,* plus 17 separate squadrons. The new force would add eight heavy bomber groups, one fighter, two light-bomber, two troop-carrier and two miscellaneous...
...magnificent scheme to build a tomb for Zeb Pike on the mountaintop he never reached. Colorado papers, scent ing another tourist attraction, played the story big; the Colorado delegation in Congress whooped it up. Said a Chamber of Commerce official: "If we can just get old Zeb and add him to the rest of the stuff we got here, it'll mean millions, boy, millions...
Literary Caveman Horace McCoy has driven to an absurd extreme the hardboiled, feel-my-muscles style of James Cain and Dashiell Hammett, and, to add cultural tone, has dipped into the bowely bathos of the wasn't-Bix-wonderful, oh-blow-that-beautiful-horn school. The result is a gutter-minded, gutter-tongued shocker of alley-cat sex, sadism and unmourned murders-relieved only by odes to Satchmo's and Muggsy's horn blowing...
Taft would still carry Ohio-Stassen backers had entered only 23 candidates, mostly in industrial areas where Taft was weakest. But every delegate Stassen seized in enemy Ohio would add to his prestige. If he got only the six which the Taft forces already conceded him, he would increase the momentum he had gained in Nebraska and Wisconsin. If he won a majority of the 23, he might well unhorse Bob Taft for good...
Third Time Around. ICC granted Class I railroads an average boost in freight rates of about 4.2%, the third increase since last October (total average increase: 21.4%). Class I railroads stood to add about $300,000,000 to their revenues, which had been sharply cut by increased labor and operating costs...