Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United Auto Workers were brought together again by labor conciliator James F. Dewey, an old hand at composing Detroit strikes, but the question of wages was still a stumbling block. Day after day the headlines radiated optimism, but there were few facts on which to base...
...Most novelists are very unattractive. They have to base their knowledge of women on conversation, or having slept with the housekeeper...
...continent. From Tierra del Fuego, Tasmania and South Africa, long-range bombers would make three wide sweeps across the polar area, flying distances up to 6,500 miles. Weather, rescue and emergency air stations would be manned by "paratroopers" at Little America and other places. Next step: sites for base camps would be selected, and sleds, dogs and scientists would be flown in for further exploration of the more promising bomb targets. Suggested base for the bomb-carrying planes: New Zealand-less than 6,000 miles round trip from the South Pole...
...roared over the heads of the pickets and over the plant's wire fence, landed safely inside the gates. Out tumbled bags of bread, meat, canned goods and cigarets-provisions for the company stay-ins. Promptly the union hired a patrol plane to find the company's base of operations. It never did; the supplies kept coming...
Altogether Gibson has poured around $300,000 into his hobby (including $50,000 for a log base-station, new this season), has taken out his dividends in fun. A so-so skier (he hurt his knee cap seven years ago), he nevertheless likes to wrap himself in a huge sheepskin coat, clap on a cocky green Alpine hat, ride up the mountain and ski down (see cut). Nights he joins the orchestra in the Currier & Ives Room at the inn, plays one of his four mandolins and seven violins, including a glass one. Between numbers, he regales his guests with...