Word: em
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over here instead of Broadway. Leave it ta hell alone or it won't be Broadway no more. Put up a sign dat says spit out your choon gum folks, dis is old Broadway; spit er out. Don't put no constrictions on da people. Leave 'em ta hell alone...
...high point of 8,209. What is equally significant, those caused by breakdown of equipment were UP 39%, those caused by improper maintenance up 47%. The grand total for all classes of accidents: 28,857 people injured (2,429 passengers on trains, 21,835 em' ployes on duty, the rest trespassers, etc.), 2,349 killed (41 passengers on trains, 491 employes on duty, the remainder trespassers...
Editor G. M. Mason reports steady progress on "The Signal" and points out that the snap section can use more shots than have yet been submitted. Get the gang together, shoot 'em (hmmm), and turn the result in to a member of the yearbook staff--pronto...
...answer to the Soviet Government's anti-religious prayers. It was related to a heavy blow that had befallen the Government earlier, the full seriousness of which had not been realized at the time: acting apparently on the principle that if you can't lick 'em, join 'em, the Metropolitan Sergei of Moscow had joined the Bolsheviks. Not that he ceased to be a Christian or acquired a party-book (the Communist Party does not admit Christians to membership). What Sergei did was to take literally the Soviet Government's decree that the business...
...Washington, Butch O'Hare got the Congressional Medal of Honor from President Roosevelt for "one of the most daring, if not the most daring, single action in the history of combat aviation." Of his exploit, Butch only said: "There wasn't much to do but shoot 'em...