Word: em
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...harbor of Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, the Jap ships lay like dozing ducks when Lieut. Commander Joseph Taylor, of Danville, Ill., saw them through the early-morning clouds. Over his inter-plane radio he called to the leader of a companion squadron: "Bill, you hit 'em high and I'll hit 'em...
...shots now," says Mr. Tobe Deutschmann of Canton, Mass. "But they still send us supplies C.O.D., and I let 'em come that way just to remind myself that I'm not any different now than when this place never even had a drinking fountain...
...most plants, slogan contests are being run as an integral part of the committees' work. Samples: "Speed the Wheels to Beat the Heels" (from an American Steel & Wire sloganeer); "Speed 'Em for Freedom" (Curtiss-Wright); "Jappy, We'll Knock You Slap Happy" (Cincinnati's Boye & Emmes Machine Tool...
Emily Blair is the elder daughter of "the royal family" of an old New England textile town. Late in the '20s Emily falls in love with young Harry Collins, and her happiness and his future in the family textile plant seem assured. But life strangely weaves, as Aunt Em remarks, "a sort of pattern." Meningitis suddenly strikes Emily stone deaf; the Depression divides the town into two warring factions. In the clash between labor and capital Emily feels for both sides. ("There it was, I thought, the word 'they' that we all took refuge in. It would...
...confessed. "I did not give them credit, but in some cases I did. Where I didn't print them identically I would read them and summarize them." His paraphrasing technique was simple: "What the [Chicago] Tribune generally reports in a dignified way, the X-Ray 'slams 'em out' in old plant, barn lot, hill billy or whatever you want to call it lan guage." An ex-serviceman, he deeply re sented the Government's slur on his patriotism. ''Give me an airplane loaded with bombs." he challenged, "and I'll fly over...