Word: deliverance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile Danny's business boomed. From noon until the small hours soldiers, sailors, ex-servicemen and their girls crowded the bar to drink and damn the Bartenders' Union. A commander from the aircraft carrier Enterprise hurried to Danny's to announce that the picketing was a "damned...
In March 1945 the 4th Armored Division of Patton's Third Army rested, out of breath, on a bridgehead along the Main. Some 50 miles northeast, near the town of Hammelburg, was a stalag filled with Allied prisoners of war. Hammelburg was in the path of General Alexander Patch...
In the breakneck race to deliver postwar toys in time for Christmas, the $200 million toy industry was falling behind. By last week manufacturers were ready to admit that this will be another year of cardboard and wood makeshifts: there will be few, if any, dolls of prewar quality, few...
Trains. The two largest manufacturers of electric trains were swamped with orders. The A. C. Gilbert Co. (American Flyer trains) hoped to get its assembly line started some time in October. Lionel Corp. did not expect to deliver trains before Oct. 15, would have few in time for Christmas; but...
Wheels & Runners. The Northrop Aircraft Inc., through its toymaking subsidiary Northrop-Gaines Inc., will roll out before Christmas 75,000 aluminum wagons, scooters, and a tricky combination-a toddler-tricycle. Murray Ohio Manufacturing Co. started to make bicycle parts three months ago, will deliver a few bicycles in October. But...