Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poor me! At Christmas brothers are at the front, sisters in factories, mother is a member of the searchlight crew, father is in the People's Army, grandfather is in home defense, Santa Claus is bombed out and Baby Jesus is evacuated...
...editorial experts demanded a Manhattan subway as early as 1849. When city officials paid no attention, the magazine hired a crew of workmen and attempted to dig a subway secretly under downtown Broadway, smuggling the excavated dirt out through the nearby cellars of sympathizers. A Tribune reporter nosed out the venture before it was finished...
...make things worse, other crews reported that on the way home from Nagoya they had seen the factory burning cheerily. The Anderson crew felt pretty low. Then an intelligence officer heard their story. He cheered them up. The Hamamatsu plant had indeed once catered to Japan's bandmen, but no longer. Best information now was that it had been converted to the manufacture of aircraft parts, it had been a prime bomber's target, after...
...reporters and photographers, the G.I.s did even better as builders. Assigned by General Eisenhower fortnight ago to help bombed-out Londoners through their housing crisis, they had their first temporary hutment erected by last week. Equipped with plenty of concrete mixers, they laid seven foundations while a British civilian crew on an adjoining lot laid...
...middleweight final, between French Sailor Marcel Cerdan and Technical Sergeant Ralph Burnley of Philadelphia, a Negro, stole last week's" show. Both were pros before they went into the service. The Negro, who is crew chief of a P-51 fighter group, ploughed into the Frenchman with abandon, took Round One. Cerdan's right scored three skull-jarring hits in Round Two, floored the Philadelphian three times for a count of nine. Cerdan took the title on a technical K.O. at the bell...