Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Filipinos in happier days, the Government-owned Manila Hotel had been something-something more than a big, square, sturdy building, usually brimming with Americans and noisy with their doings. To Manilans it was the "Grand Hotel of the Orient" and they were proud of it as a symbol of Manila's progress. Its penthouse was the residence of General Douglas MacArthur and a floor or two below, in an apartment overlooking the harbor, lived Admiral Tommy Hart, commander of the U.S. Asiatic fleet...
...water). There was dancing every night in what had been the "Fiesta Pavilion," now roofed by makeshift sheets of galvanized iron. Bright decorations hid fire-blackened walls. The furniture was rickety, the silverware a jumble of designs-anything that could be borrowed. But Manila again had its galas. The "Grand Hotel" was now a symbol of hopeful days ahead: the Government hoped to have it spick & span, newly furnished by July 4, the day set for Philippine independence...
...Helgoland, Germany's rocky North Sea fortress, would be battered soon by "Tall Boy" and "Grand Slam," Britain's bigger & better (12,000 lbs. and 22,000 lbs.) R.A.F. bombs...
Scent through the Mails. In Philadelphia, 60-year-old John Wagner was held for grand jury action despite his protest that livestock on his McClure, Pa. farm needed the garbage he had been mailing...
...Mexican league of sorts has limped along, largely on unofficial betting, for 21 years. A once great U.S. star, Rogers Hornsby, took a fling at it in 1944. quit after he had broken up a game with a grand-slam homer. (The club owner told him he shouldn't have done that, because it would hurt the next day's attendance.) By such showmanship the brothers Pasquel hope to take Mexico's mind off bullfighting. They talk big of plans to lure 30 or 40 U.S. big-leaguers south next year, to increase their three-games...