Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...base at Rabaul its second bombing: Army bombers also plastered a 10,000-ton warship and other vessels there (see cut). Said a Marine officer on Bougainville: "We owe a lot to the Air Force and Navy surface forces. We'd have been under the gun if they hadn't knocked out the Japanese air power in this area and prevented enemy surface forces from reaching...
About a year ago, a Mills Brothers' (Decca) recording of Paper Doll began to catch on in the jukes. Within 30 days Decca was deluged with orders for 600,000 disks. Publisher Marks wondered what to do with Johnny Black's royalties. Black hadn't left a record of any family connections, but someone thought he remembered that his aged father was still alive. Publisher Marks' manhunt finally tracked down one John L. Black, an 84-year-old living with a half-dozen other people in a cheap boardinghouse in Hamilton, Ohio. By the first...
...went to London, conquered it, then conquered half the cities of Europe. Back in England, he played in Show Boat, The Hairy Ape, Othello. The first night of the London Othello drew 20 curtain calls but, says Robeson, "it wasn't a success to me because I hadn't worked...
...first small, wiry Carl Fridén had to sell his machine for cash in advance - he hadn't even a model to demonstrate. But by last week his big plant, built in a San Leandro cherry orchard, employed more than 1,300 workers and was the No. 1 U.S. producer of rotary calculators (as distinguished from the simpler key-driven types). And closemouthed Carl celebrated his wonder machine's tenth anniversary by giving out the nearest thing yet to a financial statement for his closed corporation...
...long haul out to California: "I don't know why I came out here. It was such a terrible trip. . . . But when I heard Harry was in San Francisco, I just went wild. I had to get to him. He'd been in the Aleutians and I hadn't heard from him for two months...