Word: bottlesful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russian blood donors, if they choose, may have their names and addresses pasted on the bottles. Blood receivers often send thanks. From Moscow last week came a typically Russian tale of one such exchange:
Making of a Man. Truman grew up on a Jackson County farm 15 miles from Kansas City. He tried for West Point, was rejected for one weak eye, gave up the thought of college and went to work instead. He dusted bottles in a drugstore, wrapped papers for the Kansas...
From Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall went an order calling attention to a IOOI regulation that forbids sale of hard liquor on military reservations, an all-but-forgotten rule. Prevailing practice in most officers' clubs and messes* is for stewards to purchase liquor in the name of...
Like any returning traveler, Franklin Roosevelt found the mailbox jammed, a desk littered with unanswered memos, a row of soured milk bottles on his doorstep. In his three-week absence from the White House the work had piled up-and oversights had taken their toll. To catch up he would...
But they were not smart enough to whip the eternal dilemma of the man-hunted. All they gained was liquor and women : as they moved from apartment to apartment they left a trail of bobby pins and empty bottles. Otherwise life was just like prison - except that it was riskier...