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Word: beers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bulldozers to Beer. The story of Manus' building was typical. Seabees, trained on the Pacific coast for this specific job, landed there six months ago on the heels of the invading Army. Their boss was Commodore James E. Boak, who built the Espiritu Santo cruiser base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Tropical Lagoon | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

Manus was a red, shell-pocked beach, backed by impenetrable jungles and a shouldering mountain. The Seabees carried with them every item they needed-from aerial photographs and bulldozers to $15,000,000 in currency for the payroll and 50,000 cases of beer. On May 1 they went to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Tropical Lagoon | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

...night skeptical Landlord Bob Reynolds, of the rival Dog and Gun Inn, who had scoffed at reports of the witch's pranks, found a boulder the size of a beer barrel outside his pub door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: On Scrapfaggot Green | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

...Brown had set up a laboratory in the royal dining room at the ranch house. Drillers eyes bugged at the size of the Duke's refrigerator. Said one: "It's big enough to hold all the beer that all of us could buy with all our liquor permits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: Royal Wildcatter | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

Doing polkas at the "Arbiter Club" were Paul Kelley, John Baxter, Chris Kotthof and Gordon Koppert. Something on the order of the "Fife and Drum" and the "Silver Dollar," this place simply overflows with folklore and good beer...

Author: By Jack T. Shindler, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 10/3/1944 | See Source »

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