Word: downs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the State Department let it be known that the gesture was not quite so generous as it had seemed. After turning down her request for aid to China, the Government-while waiting for China's dust to settle-found time to send her a $9,002 bill...
That should have been a hint to the assembled newsmen, but it escaped them. Harry Bridges was on the way back to San Francisco, presumably because he had been unable to reach a settlement of the Hawaiian waterfront strike. The newsmen, the longshoremen and Bridges stood talking idly a few...
He kept a voluminous notebook, jotted down things for which he yearned. Among them: Oregon mountain meadow preserves, Edam cheese, a drink made with rum mixed with gunpowder from a .22 short cartridge. He also filled pages with snatches of his philosophy on women and life in general.
He also mulled ways & means of getting the boodle, set down a sort of burglar's handbook: "Bend end of small screw driver to get between glass and putty . . . Buy diamonds with cash from Cartier's-when I want to sell a hot one show the receipt . . . Dogs...
The Military Committee promptly got down to work the next day under Chairman Omar Bradley, head of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff.