Word: burnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Note: Any activity issuing or receiving the above item will immediately burn prime accounting paper in order to prevent aid or comfort to the enemy. Storage precaution: Disintegrates and evaporates instantly when handled...
Kelly might be ambushed. We tried to warn him, but our walkie-talkie couldn't pick him up. The Colonel was very worried. He conferred with Captain Bernard Kotin, an artillery observer, about the possibility of hitting the enemy without hitting our own men. "At least we could burn 'em out of that white house if you could land a shell on top there," said the Colonel to Kotin. "Pretty narrow target, though," he added. Kotin decided to try a smoke shell first and gave the range...
...Lights. In Chicago, Mrs. Alice Mischal, 23, got a divorce. She had testified that her husband made her burn candles because he hated the electric company, cook with kerosene because he hated the gas company...
...were ships as far as you could see on the cobalt blue water; the landing barges looked like squirming black fish streaming in & out from the shore. Destroyers were laying down smoke screens to help the landing craft approach safely. The screens mingled with clouds of smoke from the burning land, where shells had spread fires in the dust-dry countryside; everything that could burn was alight...
Shrewd, New Deal-hating Howard W. Smith, Virginia Democrat, author of a dozen anti-labor bills, warned: "This inflation threat is so dangerous, so imminent that I do not think we should burn this bridge down because we are mad at somebody." Representative Wright Patman of Texas counseled: "Remember that in Russia milk costs $7 a half pint, butter $70 a pound, a suit of clothes $450." The House, heedless, swept on. After months of inaction the members wanted to seize this first clear chance to smash at the Administration. Anti-Administration Democrats and Republicans alike joined...