Word: clips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manila last week a Filipino could clip a perfecto on whose gaudy band was a picture of President Sergio Osmeña, and light it from a match pack carrying the picture of fiery Manuel Roxas y Acuña. Over Manila streets and provincial roads, campaign banners fluttered from bamboo arches. Poster-covered jeeps careened through the towns. The first contested presidential election in Philippine history was at hand (April...
...your convenience, I am printing a subscription form below. If you wish, you can clip it, fill it out, and send it in to TIME. I hope you will...
...bidding started at $5,000, went up at $5,000 a clip. As the bidding got hotter, Rodanz shed his cap and coat. Finally the price reached $48,000. Someone coaxed Rodanz: "Let's set another world's record." Rodanz loosened his tie, took a deep breath, then upped the ante $3,000. The bull was his for $51,000, after only six minutes of bidding...
Like Amvets, A.V.C. is still too young to fly right. But its articulate one-world policy and its attraction for G.I.s politically left of center is drawing members at a 500-a-week clip. Already landed: Veterans Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (who heads its New York Housing Committee), Marine Raider Colonel Evans Carlson...
...Tinian he and Pfc. Al Shirley, of Los Angeles, made an unauthorized patrol ahead of advancing tanks to defuse land mines. They captured a machine gun, turned it on the enemy and killed 19. Pfc. Shirley used a whole clip from a Browning automatic rifle to knock down a Jap before the machine gun was taken. For such waste, Sergeant Smith gave him a good dressing-down...