Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the WPB realignment loomed Secretary Knox called up Hiland Batcheller in Pittsburgh, told him a Government plane would be there at noon to take him to Washington. The reason for this urgency was not hard to guess. Batcheller as president of Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp. is head of a company that is relatively small in the steel industry but one of the biggest companies in the realm of alloy steel. As an expert in alloy steelmaking he is invaluable, for in the steel bottleneck the real choke is in alloy steels (for armor plate and many a vital part...
...without women were lonely. Lounging on Far Fan Beach in Panama, an Indiana soldier explained, "Oh, I guess it's all right, but girls are mighty scarce-especially American girls." Trinidad's isolated doughboys resorted to such classified ads as "Wanted to Trade: one blonde, fully equipped with hot and cold running water, new automatic gear shift, overstuffed upholstery in a delicate pink, supercharged, and ready for action. Does not even need reconditioning. Will trade for Book on How to Have Fun in the Barracks, or Life Without Women. Request immediate transaction before losing mind." So many...
...think will win? Will the Crimson Clark, or will they Daly around. Who do you think you're Kidner? Stannard on your opinion like a man, and stop Lane around. The Mroz the merrier, and there are Forte here already. I'm having Trumbull with this, and so I guess I'll ring Tarbell and stop. Harvard 14 Cloudbusters...
...over the target right on time and spent 20 minutes before dropping all our eggs. Several times we got caught in the lights, but I managed to sideslip out of them each time. . . . The Flak was relatively light. I guess the Jerries must have been holding it for the poor fellows caught in the lights. We saw one Halifax caught in a cone of about 50 lights with the Jerries pumping streams into the apex until it exploded and slowly spiraled down...
...high it will go not even Brigadier General Joseph Wilson Byron, head of the Army Exchange Service, could accurately guess. But General Byron, a quiet, easygoing West Pointer who left the service to run his family's leather business after World War I and returned last July, can toy with some intriguing figures...