Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fifth Column. In Italy, Captain Pleasant McNeal saw a bill presented to the American Red Cross by a carpenter who added at the bottom of the bill "Plus 20% because you are Americans...
...great doors of the nation's most famed Catholic edifice, St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, dripped with painted hammer-&-sickles last week. Two of the bright red symbols faced fine-feathered Fifth Avenue; two shone from doors on the side, and two from the walls. The sacristan found them there in the morning as he prepared to open the cathedral for early Mass, and called police. Same morning the same red symbols were splotched on the walls of two other Catholic churches in the city. (Several Manhattan synagogues had previously blossomed with swastikas...
...rude, uncomfortable U.S. barracks in China were scorching last week with well-rounded curses against Jap interference with soldiers' already limited social life. Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell had ordered his men not to buy Scotch, rye or brandy ($30 to $50 U.S. per fifth). Reason: Japanese bootleggers were smuggling phony "American" brands into Free China. Some of the whiskey was poisoned...
...Fifth District S.P.s now have a big program. One-eighth of them keep order on the main rail and ferry lines. Tougher than their Army counterparts, they take liquor away from traveling servicemen...
...organized the Fifth District Shore Patrol, first separate, permanent unit of its kind, gave the new outfit blanket orders to clean up-fast. That is what the Patrol...