Word: bags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much as possible, will be concentrated in Government plants, to free privately owned plants for the manufacture of civilian goods. But said Czar Jimmy soothingly, the Government has no thought of operating its plants in postwar competition with private business. And, said Byrnes, dipping deep in the Santa Claus bag, "with the ending of the war there should be an end to the excess profits...
...President Roosevelt's 1944 Santa Claus bag still rests one secret weapon: the possibility of a general wage increase for all U.S. workers...
...railroad centers behind the West Wall and industries in central Germany took 1,000-plane doses of bad medicine-all the bad medicine which western Europe had previously had to share. Over Leipzig, while 1,000 bombers bashed oil plants, 800 U.S. fighters got a record battle's bag of 175 German planes. In two days of good hunting fighters destroyed 262 planes aground, 34 aloft...
...lost only 71 planes, mainly because Hellcats, when they are seemingly held together only by will power, limp home to their carriers somehow. In the battle of the Marianas, which Navy flyers scoffingly call the "turkey shoot," Hellcats shot down 360 Jap planes in one day, the greatest aerial bag of the war. In this combat, the Navy lost only 22 planes...
...local cops dream that there are twelve bodies buried in the cellar. Presently a truculent, criminally insane nephew (Raymond Massey) appears. He also has twelve murders to his credit and a crooked sawbones (Peter Lorre) to help him. A whimsical competition ensues to see who will be first to bag number...