Word: commented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issue of TIME has reached us today [Sept. 19], and the story about "Northwest Passage" is the object of considerable comment...
...sheeplined coat & hat, and Bergen would reprimand him for his discourtesy to men in uniform. Thereupon Charlie would crack: "Don't give me that lieutenant routine." That was enough to split the sides of the soldiers. But what really spilled them into the aisles was Charlie's comment as an unidentified plane zoomed overhead: "Here they come, fellows," cracked Charlie, "those yellow-belly bastards. I'll mow 'em down!" Posing behind an advanced gun emplacement, Charlie observed: "I can't see any Japs, but I can smell...
...speech that because of two bad wartime harvests there would be difficulty in feeding more than "6,000,000 foreign workers in Germany and over 5,000,000 prisoners of war." The fate of starving millions in occupied territories he skipped. On his own food troubles he made no comment. But Turkish fishermen did. They reported that one of Göring's planes visited Istanbul every Thursday and loaded up with lobsters (at $7.50 each) and caviar (at $15 a pound...
...WAAC authorities at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, the New York Daily News headlined the story "2 WAACs Go AWO -Oh, My!" A newsman asked Colonel Don C. Faith, in charge of WAAC training, what punishment was meted out.wired that Colonel Faith's attitude was "STRICTLY QUOTE NO COMMENT UNQUOTE." Most likely punishment is discharge as the Army has no guardhouses for girls...
...with this comment in mind that Jean Potter, a researcher working for FORTUNE, was packed off to Alaska not long before Pearl Harbor...