Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ways of American shipyards 574 ships for the U.S. Shipping Board, with a total deadweight tonnage of 3,017,238. Of these, 325, representing a total deadweight tonnage of 1,941,875, were delivered during that twelve-month period. I cite the figures for this period because I happen to have them handy. You will agree that the rate of delivery here shown would indicate a substantial addition to the figures before the November date of the Armistice...
...South. This would give Republicans control of the House. Sober Democratic estimates agreed on a Republican gain of 20 to 25 in the House; many Republicans felt that would be enough. They did not want control of the House now, with a Democratic President and Senate. But anything might happen...
...high spirits Delhi Siamese broadcasters beamed this question to their countrymen: What would happen if you happened to be in the privy when Pitul's morning broadcast began? Several days later Radio Bangkok solemnly took up the challenge. In a nationwide broadcast, Siamese were told that in such an emergency they might simply sit up straight...
...suffered a moral blow; the era of short-sighted faith is gone. Joe Gordon caught off second is as unlikely as Douglas MacArthur caught off Australia. Bill Dickey's throwing into center field is as impossible as a Flying Fortress missing its mark. Those things just don't happen. But Gordon was tagged out, and Dickey did make a bad toss. If that doesn't jolt our complacency, nothing will...
...back home "just for a week or two." But they stick hard to the nerve-racking duty of waiting, just waiting. They are not likely to be caught by surprise. They are alert and healthy and they would be happy if the Japs would only come, or something would happen...