Word: buttes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second; Corporal George Ickes stood up and shot the third at point blank range; Private Paul Reynolds, from behind a big rock, chopped down the last three with deft bursts from his Browning automatic rifle. Passarelli and Boaz had knocked their man cold; Mohl subdued his with a pistol butt. Back at an American outpost they radioed headquarters: "Mission accomplished, patrol returning." Sole U.S. casualty: Lieut. Mohl. His Jap had bitten him on the hand...
Harrods Ltd., a department store, had some Spanish sherry, bought soon after the war started at ?33 a butt (100 gallons). A German bomb hit the warehouse where the sherry was stored. Harrods collected an insurance claim for ?45 a butt (covering insurance and other costs). Then the sherry, found intact, became the property of the Government. Harrods offered to buy it back at ?200 a butt. The Government refused the offer, demanded ?500 a butt. When Harrods declined to pay any such price, officials confidently looked around for other buyers...
Lots of Smoke. In Virginia's famed Old Belt markets, tobacco companies are scrambling to buy all the leaf they can get. Although hobbled by price ceilings and individual War Food Administration quotas, they have sent prices flipping up like a snapped butt. Low-grade leaf, once worth only a cent a pound, now brings up to 30?. Second-growth "wisps," which growers once did not even bother to cart to market, now find ready buyers. Flue-cured tobacco, mainstay of the industry, is up to 40? a pound, almost double the 1933-41 average...
Subsequently, the Navy issued a bland statement that the change was made to eliminate red tape, to consolidate the arsenal with two others operated by Westinghouse at Canton, Ohio and Louisville. But Navy men let leak through the scuttle butt: Hudson had failed to produce up to expectations in the arsenal...
Portland, Ore.'s breezy Mayor Robert Earl Riley smoothed his pin-striped suit, tossed away a cigar butt, kissed his wife and daughter goodby, lit a new cigar and was off for England. He lands this week, will tour the countryside for eight weeks under the auspices of the Office of War Information, make speeches, answer questions, give Britons a chance to know-and, OWI hopes, to love-a typical U.S. mayor...