Word: augustas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pacific from Pearl Harbor, where the Pacific Fleet is based, the U. S.'s third fleet, the Asiatic, last week kept a wary eye cocked on Japan and the combustible China coast. But the shake-up did not shake it much. Still flying his flag on the flagship Augusta was 63-year-old Admiral Thomas Charles Hart, whom fellow Annapolis cadets called "Dad" (because he had a baby face). Wise in the ways of the Orient, Tommy Hart has only five months to go to retirement, has done too good a job to be pulled out before his time...
...enter upon any marriage which does not make provision for my old age and for the welfare of my children. ... I am aware, dear lady, that you are the possessor of a considerable income. . . ." The Duke of Sussex, son of George III, to Lady Augusta Murray (1820): ". . . By all that is holy, till I am married I will eat nothing...
...preparatory hum spread through the U. S. last week. Army arsenals at Rock Island, 111., Augusta, Ga., Benicia, Calif., Frankford, Pa., Dover, N. J., Metuchen, N. J.; San Antonio, Tex., Springfield, Mass., Watertown, Mass., Watervliet, N. Y., Edgewood, Md., were put on a six-day week. Two shipbuilders (Bath Iron Works Corp., Federal Shipbuilding & Dry-dock Co.) bid-o build destroyers in 18 months instead A 24. The Du Fonts ar ranged to build and operate a big powder plant financed by the French and British (see p. 79). Chrysler Corp. was ready to produce bomb fuses, shell forgings...
...Bismarck, N. Dak., Mrs. Augusta Gasck was given the choice of paying $10 a month alimony to her ex-husband, or going to jail. She chose jail...
...chest. He called it an accident. Governor Lewis O. Barrows learned of shortages of at least $72,000 in State funds, which Run nells had handled for eight years, was told that Runnells had been a large and lavish liver, a collector of nude snapshots (some of Augusta women). Last week authorities were hunting for the photo graphic subjects, to ask for more details of Controller Runnells' various affairs...