Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than WPA once disposed of, but three times the average Lend-Lease aid for the previous six months. Since World War II began, Britain has received about $5,000,000,000 worth of U.S. arms and food-most of it paid for in cash on the barrel head. But Lend-Lease materials are gradually replacing cash orders, may supplant them entirely by next year...
...owns more Renoirs than the Louvre, has the Pennsylvania Dutch itch. In one of his best vitriol-blue shirts, white-haired Collector Barnes was one of those who went last week to the little town of Norristown, Pa., to inspect an exhibition of antiquated German-American knickknacks. In the barrel-vaulted attic of its knackwurst-colored Town Hall, Norristown held its annual Antiques Show, one of a chain of country-fair dealers' exhibitions that periodically sweep the towns of the Pennsylvania Dutch 'country like an epidemic of German measles...
Hangar flying and hearth-side barrel rolls are going to take a back seat this year as the club swings into action with the purchase of a new club-owned plane and the engagement of a special flying instructor to furnish lessons at a minimum cost through the facilities of the club...
...from his home, trussed him up with wire, hustled him to an empty County Louth farmhouse. There they accused him of squealing I.R.A. secrets to the Government. When he denied this they blindfolded him, bound him to a chair, bashed his face and head with fists and a revolver barrel. Finally Sean McCaughey threatened that if he did not confess in 15 minutes he would be shot. Thereupon Stephen Hayes invented imaginary incidents, was removed to Dublin...
Against some of these criticisms West Pointer Gregory had a fair defense if he had been free to talk. Camp sites are not picked by the Corps itself but by Corps Area boards which have only one Quartermaster Corps member. Picking is almost invariably complicated by pork-barrel politics. Moreover, Congressional dawdling with emergency measures forced the Corps to start its big program much too late, made it take heroic measures for speed. So costs were skyrocketed by high wages, strikes, tremendous bills for overtime...