Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George Hicks, crack ABC correspondent, who was set to hop to the Pacific when the war ended, got a gravy job announcing U.S. Steel's costly new Theater Guild on the Air show...
...Jimmy crack corn and I don't care, Jimmy crack corn and I don't care, Jimmy crack corn and I don't care, My master's gone away...
...cars fight each other for their share of the market. In war, G.M. showed the same fluidity. Example: it was the only auto company which made planes in an auto plant. It took on the hardest jobs it could get from the Army & Navy; Mr. Sloan likes to crack tough nuts. In all it turned out an incredible total of $12 billion in materiel...
Hauser thinks it would be a good idea if General Eisenhower were given autocratic power to command the Germans like an army in the field, with crack U.S. troops to keep them jumping. The Germans would like this, Hauser believes; but since the U.S. will not do it, Germans will turn to the only country who will-the Soviet Union...
...grade at the age of ten years and nine months, from high school at 14 ("I would have been a quiz kid"). He became an apprentice at Chicago's high-class, high-priced Sargent's drugstore (today he owns half of it). He quit to take a crack at almost everything else, even spent 18 months in Italy studying to be an opera tenor, eventually decided that he was a druggist after...