Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sameness, loss of personal liberty and low standard of living. . . ." And he voiced the menace as abiding as the danger of Indian attacks at night in the colonial days he had studied: "What can we say of the remainder of this century in which we and our children and grandchildren shall have to live...
Even in, the days of his husky grandchildren, the B-295, Grandpappy can still hold his head high. He can fly up to 200 m.p.h. since he got some big, new engines which could supply the horsepower for lighting a small city if necessary. His wingspread is 150 ft., 46 ft. longer than his cousins', the newer B-173, only 62 ft. shorter than that of his nephew, the lumbering, dullard Douglas B19. Grandpappy has clippings to show that, in 1939, he carried a pay load of 31,205 Ib. (total weight: 74,000 Ib.) to a height...
...eats sparingly (only thick soup for luncheon), smokes more William Penn cigars than his doctor thinks he should. His favorite topic of conversation is his grandchildren, Marion and Holland II, aged four and two. Toward women he is an old-fashioned Southerner. Riding recently in a C-54 through the Pacific, he noticed two Army nurses aboard, mused: "Think of it. Women...
...railroads. Away from the Army, back to industry went management of the roads, after 22 days of Government operation. The seven top rail executives who had donned Army colonels' uniforms took them off again, put them away in closets, to be taken out only for parades and grandchildren. For three weeks' active duty, they were entitled to about $360 in Army pay (besides their regular salaries). But most of them had spent $250 or more on well-tailored uniforms. The workers fared better. The 15 big non-operating unions (1,100,000 members...
...eleventh Christmas since Franklin Roosevelt was first elected President was also the first he had spent at Hyde Park since 1932. Then he had four grandchildren. By last week, five marriages and three divorces later, he had 14 grandchildren, and the seven who were on hand to spend Christmas with him made the 20 bric-a-brac-filled rooms of the Hyde Park mansion seem precariously crowded. The mother of John Roosevelt Boettiger, 4, found his overcoat pocket crammed with keys he had filched from White House doors. Grandpa Roosevelt-his hair considerably whiter than...