Word: fixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sundays" recalled World War I days, when Sunday driving became treasonous, children stoned cars, and pedestrians yelled "slacker" at any driver who ventured out. Since then the Sunday ride has become a major U.S. recreation. Washington, in 1941, shrank from spoiling it, preferred a straight rationing system which would fix the amount of gasoline a consumer could buy each week, permit him to use it whenever he pleased...
...bribed to go along the pipeline, dig a hole, build a fire and when the pipe gets hot, shoot a hole. The geyser of oil catches fire. The British-French-American oil people have airport and hospital stockades every 60 miles - send out repair men by airplane and fix the fire hole within two or three hours. Bill cruised every foot of Iraq with a Kurdish interpreter and 16 Arabs-got interested in Biblical lore, measured the marks left by Noah's flood, reconstructed the story of the ark. Says Noah was a pitch dealer-built...
...Dixie, Casey Jones, etc.). Newer to rookies were the Army songs: > The Field Artillery's rollicking The Caissons Go Rolling Along, written for horse artillerymen, now has a modern parody: Over hill, over dale, motorized from head to tail, With the caissons and hosses all gone. Stop to fix up a flat, or to get the captain's hat, Motor trucks with pieces hooked on.* > The Army Engineers sing: The Captain says my rifle's rusty And I don't know but what he's right, If he'd inspect my pick and shovel...
...Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg-and Hungary and Rumania were reported about to join up. With a lid artificially clamped on the prices of French securities, Germans were buying heavily into French banks and business houses. It was announced that French and German insurance companies would shortly fix a standard rate schedule among themselves...
...main reason for the big poundage rise is heavy machinery and instruments. To fix a broken Navy power shovel, Illinois' Buda Company recently air-expressed a 750-lb. Diesel engine crankshaft 7,826 miles to Wake Island in the Pacific; Aluminum Co. of America rushed 1,207 lb. of aluminum from Pittsburgh to California to avoid an aircraft production...