Word: grabbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Undaunted, Fireman Corporal Harry Slick loaded 21 freight cars with 1,000 tons of supplies, including high-octane gasoline and explosives, and set off northward. Coming down a mountain, the throttle broke and the brakes refused to grab. Corporal Slick was doing 90 m.p.h. when he reached the flat again-somehow still on the tracks-and his supply train roared through eight stations before it finally stopped. The reward which he got from a grateful Red Army commander was the coveted Order of the Red Star; it entitled him to free rail-transport anywhere in the Soviet Union...
...show was put on by the enterprising Guild of British Creative Designers, an association of twelve wholesale gown manufacturers, which has its eye on postwar trade, would like to grab some Parisian prestige. But for the uniformed and utility-clothed British girl the show was a frustration. The Board of Trade does not yet permit, for domestic use, such luxury items as were shown last week. All 48 of the models displayed were earmarked: Down Under-for export to Australia...
Poland's 1938 Teschen grab hurt Poland's later case before the world. Lublin and London seemed to be enrolled in an unpopularity contest...
...baby. If it comes along it will be plenty visible-as is generally the case." Passes have already been made at several major and minor leftwing journalists (including Jonathan Daniels, President Roosevelt's express secretary). Field said his first step was to try to buy Liberty magazine, grab its paper and circulation, and change it radically, but "that's all over. We found that Liberty* wasn't for sale...
...British Overseas Airways Corp. last week announced its first transatlantic passenger schedule. From Baltimore to Poole, England, 100 miles from London, via Newfoundland, B.O.A.C. will operate four flights weekly this summer, will carry civilian passengers if high priority holders do not grab all the available seats...