Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dear friends, though little gods...
...deserve a send-off. Morever these last exercises means a lot to some of us, and to our friends and relatives, even if it is only a chance to strut and be the center of attention for a few hours. Such is harmless and trivial, but very necessary and dear to men. Sincerely, George J. Grindle...
...This week Methodist Chaplain Ralph D. Brown, recently awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for bravery in carrying the wounded off Clark Field during continual bombings, penciled the following words to Chaplain Perry L. Wilcox on a crumpled sheet of his field notebook: 'Dear Chaplain-I will sincerely appreciate the case of New Testaments I spoke to you about when we met in Bataan. I have hundreds of boys begging for them each week. I am now en route to the -- corps who have suffered heavy casualties this week. They need Scriptures badly-any you don't need will...
...Last week W. R. Grace & Co.'s Cecil Kern began a campaign to lower the U.S. duty, kill the quota regulations on Peru's long-staple cotton. These limitations (dear to U.S. cotton Congressmen) normally keep U.S. imports to only 4,000 bales out of Peru's total crop of over 300,000 bales...
...Bataan Peninsula General Douglas MacArthur's cocky soldiers referred affectionately to the single, battered old P-40 droning overhead as "our Air Force." Unable to send mail of their own, they asked TIME Correspondent Melville Jacoby to address a message for them all to their Commander in Chief: "Dear Mr. Roosevelt: Our P-40 is full of holes. Please send us a new one." In Washington Congress proposed a Congressional Medal of Honor for Douglas MacArthur, considered naming a projected TVA dam and a Washington boulevard (now Conduit Road) in his honor...