Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: At the close of Willkie's speech on the MARCH OF TIME I asked my son what he thought of Willkie as President. He said: "I can't picture Willkie riding in an automobile with the top down, and being protected by a gang of Secret Service men." I was suddenly aware of the fact that for this 16-year-old, as for other thousands of his age and younger, the Secret Service guards, the White House, the President and the Star-Spangled Banner had always been associated with only one man, Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
casualties fell off rapidly. Before noon it became evident that the Jap list of killed and wounded would be longer than the American. That was no consolation to the leathernecks who had seen their mates fall. But there was satisfaction in mopping up the snipers. One gang of 50 Marines fired rifles and carbines into one coconut tree at a trapped Jap. He returned the fire after he had been hit at least 50 times...
...made and real wealth to be salted away against better postwar years. But those who do the best must be prepared to hear epithets like "hoarder" and "smuggler," must expect their neighbors to assume that they are using "pull." Over & over, the hard-pressed tell each other that "The Gang," the favored few who know how to obtain licenses to trade in foreign currency, are lining pockets, putting down anchors where they will do the most good if chaos should come...
Chungkingers with know-how see plenty of sense in pegged dollars. Armed with a license to trade in foreign exchange, a member of "The Gang" can grow fat by moving back & forth between the black and the legal market, between smuggling, hoarding and speculation. As those who know the ropes pile up paper profits, they turn to time-honored ways of hedging against the effects of the inflation that they helped to create. They buy land...
Gnarled hands reached over the side, began to pull up the first of the "gang" nets, each "gang" made up of 24 gill nets 4 ft. wide and 300 ft. long, which may extend for a mile and a half. Motors of the automatic net lifters began to cough. With thousands of lake herring trapped by their gills in the 2½-in. meshes, the nets poured into the boats for two hours a glistening stream of thousands of pounds of fish. Nets cleared, lunch eaten and new nets set, the fishing fleet turned homeward, from Duluth to Munising, Mich...