Word: diggings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hatted policemen in the squad car flashed a radio call. In a few minutes the square was full of the businesslike bustle of men going into action. First they put out the incendiaries, squirting chemicals on them and flinging sand. The bomb-removal squad swung picks to dig up the still-unexploded bombs and hauled them away. The decontamination squad, dressed in rubber suits and gloves, went after the gas bombs, sprinkling chloride of lime everywhere...
Bill Jenks had reconnoitered the west ridge several years before and reported huge ice towers reaching 200 and 300 feet into the air, which they would either have to work their way around or dig tunnels through. However, they had all disappeared when played on Franklin Field...
...Roosevelts are probably not as happy as they might be about their newfound affluence. When tax time rolls around next March, the President, like many another man of great means, will have to dig deep in his bank account to pay his income taxes. Eleanor Roosevelt is already trying to liquidate some of her assets. At her press conference this week Mrs. Roosevelt announced that both her Manhattan town houses (Nos. 47 and 49 East 65th Street) are for sale. She has also given up her hideaway apartment in Greenwich Village...
They were there, as their expense accounts showed, but otherwise it was an unkind and entirely unwarranted dig. Perhaps the White House gang would forget it in time, but they were powerfully disillusioned. Last week most of them felt that it was the end of a beautiful friendship. If so, it betokened more than that: the beginning of a new era in White House press relations...
Meanwhile the Army, screaming for more ships, decided it would dig up a production man for Republic. The man: energetic Ralph Shepard Damon, 44, whose five years as American Airlines operations vice president were preceded by two decades of aircraft designing and building, mostly with Curtiss-Wright. Damon became president last May; Kellett moved up to chairman (and finance-watcher...