Word: carloads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Posing as a Flemish worker on vacation from Danzig, Artist Hélion next boarded a train to Cologne, got through two examinations of his false papers, mixed with a friendly carload of Nazi soldiers. He sneaked across the border to Belgium Then by stealing rides on trucks, Hélion reached the French frontier, crawled through vegetable gardens at dusk, evading patrols, and reached Paris...
...even a snappishness, were filled with pleasantries and good humor. Asked for his reaction to Wendell Willkie's report to the nation, to which he had listened over the radio, the President replied, with less than his occasional obliqueness, that there wasn't a controversy in a carload of speeches...
...have been preparing for this for a long time and now the time has come to quit practicing and start doing! At dawn tomorrow we are going in and land United States Marines by the carload onto the Jap-held Solomon Islands!!! And I hope the Jap Fleet comes to the rescue, because we'll land all over them...
...getting-and keeping-burlesque in barracks required a musicomedy plot too complicated to explain and too silly to bother about, Lindsay & Crouse never stopped to worry. They tossed in gags-their own, burlesque's, the Army's-by the carload. They waded waist-high in corn. They piled Pelion on Ossa, and Minsky on the War Department. They plundered burlesque for all it was worth-strip teases and straight men, the "elephants" and the "grind"-and then brazenly parodied...
Best example of how the chains set compliance standards is in food retailing, where the U.S. has some 600,000 outlets, ranging from carload-lot supermarkets to one-man neighborhood shops. Only 40,000 (7%) of these outlets are owned by chains (A. & P., Safeway, Kroger, etc.), but they do a potent 33% of the business. The five largest chains alone, with about half the chain outlets, handle two-thirds of the chain volume. This, says the Department of Justice, means that "the food chains are in a position to dominate the food industry." If that...