Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Catch. In Sheffield, Ohio, a marine went fishing, caught a live pig. In the Mississippi, near New Orleans, the S.S. Amherst Victory weighed anchor, hauled up a four-ton, two-horned manta a four-ton, two-horned manta (devil fish...
...York Times Topicker Simeon Strunsky, who usually does, saw the brighter side of things in the long lines waiting to buy papers at the plants. Wrote he: "It is calculated to make a newspaper man's bosom swell with pride, like Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B., riding at anchor in Pinafore. . . ." Other newsmen felt as if they were talking into a dead mike...
...tragic wreck that was Manila, sunken Japanese ships still littered the bay's muddy floor, many thrusting gaunt masts and rusted superstructures out of the water. But Manila Bay had come back to life: last week plump Liberty ships tied up to the scaly hulks, rode at anchor or nestled at waterfront berths. Their cargoes moved on shuttling Army ducks and landing craft, in rumbling trucks. The world's worst-cluttered harbor was back in business, handling more tonnage than before...
...potent than the sum of their parts. Industrial India, with a swiftly rising output (mostly steel and textiles), would expand most rapidly under the careful nurturing of imperial preferences. If the princes* came in (as they almost certainly would in time), the Dominion of India would become a mighty anchor in the storms that might ravage postwar Asia...
Rich, mass-selling R. H. Macy & Co., Inc. has long yearned for a West Coast anchor for its department-store chain (eight stores in seven U.S. cities). Last week it got one: San Francisco's sedate, pioneer O'Connor, Moffatt...