Word: breathers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bonds. After a four-year breather, Kirkeby started buying again. He concentrated on class hotels because "it costs no more for maids to clean an $8 room than for a $3 one." He picked up the Nacional in Cuba, the Beverly Wilshire and the Sunset Towers in Los Angeles. Then, backed by Chicago's sewer contractor Steve Healy, he bought Chicago's 3,000-room Stevens from the Army. (The Stevens, too, was subsequently sold.) But Kirkeby's biggest splash was the Hampshire House, ankle-deep in carpeting, knee-deep in income...
...anniversary week, fortunately, provided a breather. At the behest of Charter Member Truman, ten ladies of the 25-year-old Tuesday Bridge Club of Independence, Mo. turned up at the White House. They had paid their own way, come by plane and car, dodged reporters constantly, and were in a high state of twitters. After a sedate lunch, they chose their rooms (two shared the Lincoln bed), brought Mrs. Truman up to date on home matters, dressed for an evening concert at Constitution Hall to hear Pianist Eugene List (see Music...
...went home after that for a breather, met and married pretty, 21-year-old Ada North. But he was soon back in the South Pacific, fighting in Abemama and Majuro, and in the Marshall Islands, where he was wounded by a Jap hand grenade...
Marine Smith fought on at Peleliu, was shipped back to Pearl Harbor, for another breather, then shipped out again for the Leyte and Luzon campaigns. He was sent home to California ("They said I was tired and worn out") but he got back in time for the Okinawa campaign and the last days...
...Department strategists were frankly worried. Any delay which gave the Japs a breather would alter the Pacific schedule and might cost U.S. lives. But there was not much the High Command could do about it while the Nazis continued to resist...