Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Step on It. In Pittsburgh, a local ration board received this letter: "Dear Ration Board: You gave me gas for which to go to work about a month ago. Now I am out of gas on account of having a baby and I want more for the same purposes...
...described as a nightmare in hell. It was partly the weather-Iwo is as cold as Ohio at this season. The front line now has moved out of the tropics into a region of high winds and long periods without sunshine. Soon, U.S. fighting men will long for the dear old steaming jungles and sun-baked atolls. All through this bitter night the Japs rained heavy mortars and rockets and artillery on the entire area between the beach and the airfield. Twice they hit casualty stations on the beach. Many men who had been only wounded were killed. The command...
Tried and Failed. This week an old, earnest and angry man-War Secretary Stimson-took the Army's appeal for a labor draft to "those who have sons or husbands or other dear ones at the front." Said Henry Stimson...
...eastern Germany. Mrs. Walters' feelings were uncomplicated by politics or protocol. So she sat down and wrote a letter in which she managed to express the simple gratitude that many similarly uncomplicated Britons feel toward the Russians. She addressed her letter simply to Joseph Stalin Esquire, Kremlin, Moscow: "Dear Marshal Stalin: My prayers have been answered and now what more can I say than thank you, Mr. Stalin, and thank you, all you gallant men of the Red Army who have brought an English bride these happy tidings. God bless you, Mr. Stalin...
...Americans, there was a special recognition of certain precepts which Americans have always held dear, and which would reassure many a citizen that World War II was not being fought in vain...