Word: ax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Legion struck Isolationism a ruinous blow last week-a ponderous, powerhouse, meat-ax crusher. The repercussions of the Legion's action in its 23rd annual convention would echo for many months in Congress, the press, the homes of U.S. citizens. In convention at Milwaukee the Legion...
This week the first victims in these groups packed their gear and got ready to go home. They included a brigadier general and a lieutenant colonel. How many had already got the ax, the War Department would not say. But all the Army officers in field outfits have been told that whether they stay in uniform or get out depends on the showing they make in this fall's maneuvers...
...shouldered a musket at the age of 16 for the Continental Army in the Revolution). Harold went to the University of Chicago, became campus correspondent for the Chicago Record, graduated, went to work as a reporter on space rates, some weeks earning as much as 75?. Just as the ax was about to fall, he came on the dream of a cub reporter: a big scoop. Chicago newspapers had been looking for a missing Mamie Doane for weeks. Returning from the morgue one day, where he had inspected a drowned possible Mamie, young Harold had a bright idea...
...experts, the theorists, the ax grinders finished their pleading before the Senate Finance Committee. The shouting died away. Behind closed doors, the committee began drafting their idea of the 1942 tax bill to raise $3,500,000,000. Indications were they would adopt almost none of the new proposals, would stick close to the bill the House had already voted...
...with a resin binder, is made of soybeans, wheat, cotton, hides, plus a few imported, now hard-to-get ingredients (cork, rubber, tung oil, ramie-formerly used to wrap Egyptian mummies). Last fall Boyer turned out a few panels, had his lanky boss whang at them harmlessly with an ax, was overjoyed when Ford gave him the go-ahead for a complete...