Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chain of Atlantic defense sites on which the U.S. is to build bases now reaches from Greenland to British Guiana. In a sweeping agreement with the Danish Minister in Washington last week, the U.S. took over protection of the world's biggest island, moved the U.S.'s outermost line of potential defenses 900 miles nearer Europe, only three miles from the Nazi war zone. Yet in a week of staggering reverses and calamities, the U.S. could draw one lesson clearly: the new base sites should have been secured long ago, so that instead of sites we would have...
...Federal wages spout out of the Treasury into workers' pockets. Postage receipts were up $100,000,000 in February 1941 over February 1940. In the past five years, department-store sales jumped from an annual $57,000,000 to $85,000,000. In a year, one drugstore chain sold 40,000 alarm clocks...
...have been released this week. First is a collection of Dersey Brothers reissues which includes the original Gettin' Sentimental Over You, a much prettier job than the more recent version (COLUMBIA). The other is a Count Basie album, particularly valuable due to the inclusion of Swinging On the Dalsy Chain, one of the Count's first jobs with the full band. Execution is rather rough, but it has that old Basie jump (DECCA...
...there is a garage two doors away. Orthodox Greeks have taken over the Episcopal church across the street. In a nearby tourist lodging, a Philadelphia gangster murdered a woman with a brutality that diverted readers of Richmond newspapers for days. Rooming houses, chain stores, laundries, bakeries have crept in like the moral decay in a Glasgow novel. During Prohibition a humor-loving cop told Ellen Glasgow that her home was now in the heart of the bootlegging district. She said it was comforting to think that even a bootlegging district had a heart...
This last year was a hard one for the old gentleman. He had once walked with a magnificent leisure, his hands behind him clasped about his cane. He used to pause now and then to tip his bowler to someone, or to keep his cigarette chain going. But this winter there was no leisure in his walk; it was just a slow walk, and he was not smoking, and when he talked with you, he coughed at length, and the familiar smile left his face. Pierre de Chaignon la Rose had been a scholar and a dandy...