Word: digged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long ago as last April, OPM had told radio manufacturers, with no trimmings, to count on little or no magnesium, aluminum, other scarce materials. Their own leaders said the same, warned them to "get out and dig" for defense business to survive (TIME, June 23). The radiomakers paid good heed. Already they are about 25% engaged in defense work (ammunition and machine-gun parts, wartime radio devices, including the "walky-talky," a two-way battery set for field...
...volunteers, with almost no experience of revolvers, took to firing them in any direction, used them to kill flies. In most camps the soldiers did not think it necessary to dig latrines. Said one bored volunteer, eying the national capital: "Hardly worth defending, except for the éclat of the thing." On payday hell broke loose. Some Zouaves, refused admittance to Julia Deane's bordello, fired pistols at Inmate Nelly Mathews, "who pluckily returned their fire...
Cried Republic Steel's Tom Girdler: "I'll go back to the farm and dig potatoes before I sign with the C.I.O." That was in 1937, during the "Little Steel" strike. Last week, like Bethlehem Steel and Henry Ford before him, Girdler signed...
Cortes sent one of his lieutenants to Taxco in 1522 to dig silver out of the Indians who were digging it out of the surrounding mountains. But Taxco's first big silver boom did not occur until 1717, when a very smart young man named Jose de la Borda came out from Spain to show his uncles how to mine silver at a fantastic profit...
...unable to get the last component part ... we will have materials we cannot use . . . our bankers will take a personal interest in our detailed affairs." Then he told them that the only way to save their skins was to get defense business. Roared he, coachlike: "Get out and dig...