Word: filed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your record on file in this office indicates that you have now become of age, and are therefore entitled to know the definition of Knibbling...
...Move out! Move out!" Like an alarm, that midnight voice cut through our sleep. The walkie-talkies spoke: "Move out! Move out!" A soldier said: "I'm all set to go. I got new bandages on my feet." Suddenly we were on the path, moving in single file-no vehicles, no tanks, just a bunch of foot soldiers...
...harpoon for Pan Am came in a statement of policy: "There can be no rational basis for permitting" air transport outside the U.S. to be "left to the withering influence of monopoly." To implement the new "free" policy, the 16 airlines served notice on CAB that they will promptly file petitions for permission to operate worldwide air routes...
...flight deck. Off on either side steamed cruisers and destroyers. The next morning, Doolittle told them officially what the mission was, gave them choice of city: Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Kobe, Magoya. They were to land at small Chinese airfields, refuel and meet at Chungking. It would be single-file, hit-&-run, each crew on its own. "If we all get to Chungking, I'll throw the biggest goddamn party you ever...
...billion to spend. It hired 8½ million people who raked leaves, leaned on shovels-and built 77,000 bridges, 644,000 miles of roads, 116,000 buildings, 800 airports. Now some 292 workers have until next September to get the microfilmed records neatly rolled into 135 steel file cabinets...