Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From British women in war factories last summer came a swelling chorus of complaint: a lack of good corsets caused undue fatigue, spoiled dispositions, slackened morale, hindered production. The Government investigated, found corsets were only an item in a grave undercover situation...
...comes down upon your back with blisterin heat and the lizards are scurryin over the dead leaves ahuntin a wisp of shade on the backbone of a mountain that is steamin in the swelterin heat like a pan of bread in an oven. ... I hurried up to the grave to look down in it. It wasn't as deep as I was tall. . . . On another grave was a tattered flag, that the wind had faded until you could hardly tell what it was. Parts of it had been beaten off by the strong mountain wind and had caught...
Cradle to Grave. All this smart, fast buying did what it was supposed to do -zoomed profits. For the first nine months this year, sales hit an alltime high of $62,000,000, with an estimated net profit after taxes of $3,200,000 ($3.50pershare...
...American Home is about finished buying. It has all the drug com panies it can handle without competing with itself. With a few more food com panies, Alvin Brush can achieve his post war ambition to supply the U.S. citizen's household wants from the cradle to the grave...
Bareheaded and grave, Franklin Roosevelt stood before the white marble where lies the soldier "known but to God." The wind was cold...