Word: glads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the hard-coal mine shafts and sooty breaker houses of East-Central Pennsylvania the miners tramped, glad after 24 days of idleness to be back at work. Once again out of the valleys threaded long, black lines of coal trains. The wildcat, leaderless anthracite strike, which had gained the miners nothing, cost the East 1,000,000 tons of needed fuel, was over at last: the President had stopped it. John L. Lewis had tried and failed (TIME...
Extraterritorial Gladness. Sensible, blue-eyed, democratic Princess Juliana escaped from Holland in 1940 in a British destroyer and has been living quietly in Ottawa with Princesses Beatrix, who will be 5 next week, and Irene, 3. Her speed-loving, 31-year-old, German-born husband Prince Bernhard, an air commodore in the R.A.F., visited her briefly last spring. He flew back again last week. Said he: "I'll be glad if it's a boy, but I'll be very happy if it's a girl...
...this fancy production record General Mills is modest, even refuses to say who gets the credit. But one man stands out-glad-handing Harry A. Bullis, who started to learn the flour business as a mill laborer, in 20 years was auditor, comptroller, secretary and executive vice-president. An amateur prophet, Orator Harry Bullis in May 1940 publicly predicted the U.S. would be at war sooner than expected, started pushing the world's largest flour miller into munitions work long before any mill-sized war contracts were in sight. Fortnight ago General Mills directors gave Harry Bullis a well...
Ever since Hugh Hyde and Bunks Burditt were publicly labelled "unofficial bridge champions of the College" snide remarks have been going about as to the validity of their claim. To silence this sub rosa sabotage the pair have announced that they would be glad, very glad in fact, to meet all comers before their Sunday night match...
...Chances are that this cut will not satisfy the Congressional economy bloc, led by Virginia's tart Senator Harry F. Byrd, which has a shrewd suspicion that many former peacetime expenditures are now masquerading in the war budget. Said the President, anticipating criticism: "I shall be glad to cooperate with the Congress in effecting further reductions...