Word: fared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when he had been a captain for five years, he qualified as a naval aviator, then had a series of air commands until he was given the new Atlantic Patrol Force last year. Characteristically, he did not fare so well on shore duty, when he was first Assistant Chief, and later Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics (after famed Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett went down with the dirigible Akron...
...magnesium alloys. U.S. magnesium production in 1940: 13,000,000 lb. Jones's RFC last week stepped farther into this field as well, put up $50,000,000 to build new Government-owned magnesium plants' However the supply of such vital military materials may fare this year and next, defense is already changing the industrial face...
...fulfilled, it will take more than a year to equip the Army. At super-human best, peak production on most of the schedules already drawn will not be reached before 1942. Since aircraft production has first place on these schedules, the rest of the Army can hardly expect to fare faster or better than the Air Corps...
When , taffy-colored Arthur Wergs Mitchell, the only Negro Representative in Congress, purchased a first-class railroad fare from his home in Chicago to Hot Springs, Ark., he was familiar with the Arkansas law specifying "equal, but separate and sufficient accommodations" for both races. But when his Pullman reservation was refused at the Arkansas line, Arthur Mitchell swallowed his temper, declined a proffered rebate, obeyed the conductor's order to continue his journey in what he described as the "filthy and foul-smelling" Jim Crow coach up ahead...
...Jayvees did not fare as well as their seniors, for in their third match with the Boston Rugby Club they were beaten 10 to 0 after tied the same team, 3 to 3, twice before...