Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...told, the buildup seldom costs less than $40,000 (Glenn Miller needed $60,000; Artie Shaw $65,000). During the costly prestige-building months, the weekly take is small. But once the film, radio and record contracts start rolling in, the reckoning is in five figures...
Nothing about Gunder ("The Onetime Wunder") Hägg's trip to the U.S. had run on schedule. He had arrived from Sweden four weeks ago on a big buildup and rubbery legs. He promptly lost three races while trying to nurse his soft calf muscles back into shape. Last week, gangling Gunder finally salvaged a blue ribbon...
...mood for the "L.S./M.F.T." (Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco) buildup will be more boom-de-ay than swoon-away. For $3,500 (and no piping deductions), Manhattan-based Metropolitan Opera Star Lawrence Tibbett last week began singing his own barrel-chested versions of such popular nifties as Don't Fence...
...convoy (the Jap said 30 transports and 20 escorting cruisers and destroyers) ploughed through three days of enemy air attacks in the Mindanao and Sulu Seas. At first the jittery Japs feared it might be headed for Luzon, but the convoy put in at Mindoro. The buildup was proceeding along with the attrition. Soon enough Luzon would be the target for other convoys...
General Eisenhower was obviously not settling down to winter battles of attrition, A staff officer in the British Second Army told correspondents that the Allied buildup was gaining strength every hour, soon there would be "a hell of a bang...