Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elder Statesman Baruch, finally become an official member of the Administration, did not have to change his working habits. He still drew a salary of nothing a year, which is all he needs. In his new job as consultant to Czar of Czars James F. Byrnes, he still operated from his rainy-day office in a Carlton Hotel suite, from his sunny-day office on a Lafayette Park bench, prodigally dispensing his wisdom, always counseling hope, always sticking to the fundamentals, talking torrentially in a rich mixture of Broadway words and the jargon of high finance. It is this talk...
...Americans' next major blow was a double raid from which 26 bombers did not return-the heaviest loss yet suffered by U.S. bombers in Britain. One force was sent out over Kiel. This raid drew off most of the Luftwaffe's fighters and precipitated one of the greatest air battles of World War II. The other, larger force raided Bremen comparatively unhindered...
...kind, easygoing people of The Netherlands flamed with anger at the latest Nazi measure against Holland's Jews; an order for sterilization of Jews who marry what Adolf Hitler calls Aryans. So did their churches. Last week Roman Catholic and Protestant church leaders drew up a stern joint protest, sent it to Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Reich Commissioner for The Netherlands...
...uniforms." Private Earl Carroll made half of a recruiting act which played Manhattan vaudeville theaters. Federal officers seized copies of the song It'll Be a Hot Time for the Old Boys when the Young Men go to War. Notable entertainers who volunteered to go overseas were John Drew, Billie Burke, Jane Cowl. Lillian Russell, Walter Damrosch. Maude Adams...
...Frank Kurtz and his crew the war was a succession of airfields from which they flew until they were lost. There was Del Monte on Mindanao, "a pretty turf field right up against the big pineapple cannery." They used it first as a base, then, as the Japs drew closer, as a place to load bombs and gas on missions flown from Australia, "touching it as lightly as you would a hot stove." They flew 18 hours a day, with minutes of cat naps in between, until they were sent down to Java...