Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nick of time Senate leaders snagged the measure. In turn, the bloc threatened to tack it on to a bill to expand RFC borrowing, thus stalling an urgent piece of wartime legislation. Once again, the farm bloc had the Administration over a barrel, statistics or no statistics...
Smackover,* Ark. Dark-haired, Texas-born Bea Muncy Reynolds took over the management of the Smackover Journal in 1937. Her audience was a town of about 2,500 which derived some importance from the fact that it sits smack on top of a 500-million-barrel petroleum pool. Mrs. Reynolds got along fine for awhile. The Journal earned enough to permit purchase of many a new machine for the job shop. Once it got a real news break, when a refinery exploded and caught fire, killing several Smackoverans and injuring scores on publication day. That night the Journal carried...
...abolished space and expanded Main Street into the universe. In The Skin of Our Teeth he has annihilated time and turned the Antrobus family of Excelsior, N.J. into the story of mankind. But where Our Town, despite its reckless stagecraft, was a warm and human allegory nourished with cracker-barrel wisdom, The Skin of Our Teeth is a cockeyed and impudent vaudeville littered with asides and swarming with premeditated anachronisms. Dinosaurs collide with bingo; the Muses jostle the microphone...
Died. Lieut. General John Archer Lejeune, 75, ex-Commandant of the Marine Corps (1920-29), commander of the famed Second Division in World War I; in Baltimore. Chunky, lion-headed, seam-faced, Barrel-chested, he joined the Marines in 1890, commanded the Marines in Panama during the 1903 revolution, put down a revolt in Cuba in 1912, led the occupation of Vera Cruz in 1914. He commanded the Second Division (a regular Army brigade and the 4th Brigade of Marines) from late July 1918 to August 1919. Under him the division captured 3,300 prisoners in the St. Mihiel offensive...
...even a knuckle-swinger like Admiral Halsey was helpless to sustain General Vandegrift unless the strategy-makers far behind the lines had received their Pacific estimates and allocated more materials. One air group, which would be just a drop in the barrel in Europe, could have helped win many more skirmishes on Guadalcanal by affording much-needed relief for tired men and worn planes...