Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gladish apparently criticizes General Robert E. Wood for having used an old Krag rifle on his hunting trip to Canada. ... I happen to know as a fact that General Wood, together with Colonel William J. Donovan ("Wild Bill") and a neighbor of mine, Mr. Russell B. Stearns, joined me in a hunting trip to the Yukon Territory in the fall of 1939. I also happen to know that on this trip General Wood led the party by bagging three grizzly bears, as well as an excellent trophy of the white mountain sheep. I further know that our toes are still...
Many troubles, misunderstandings and delays were bound to happen when U.S. money, men and living standards suddenly invaded Great Britain's colonial calm. Inevitable or not, it looked as if some of the prospective bases might be ready for the next war, but hardly for this...
...patents licensed to U.S. companies (including Standard Oil's right to produce synthetic rubber by the buna process) have not all been sent out of the U.S., but they were a prime source of capital for Nazi propaganda and espionage here. Now, the best that is likely to happen to their legal claimants is that their royalties will be held for them until the war is over...
...nearby Glen Garden Club, co-favorites at 5-t01. Some experts rate Nelson the best all-round golfer in the world. Others say the same about Hogan, who has not been out of the money in 47 consecutive big-time tournaments. But in the Open almost anything can happen...
Beaverbrook took it all without batting an eye. A week later things began to happen. Ministers, amazingly humanized, became accessible. First Lord Alexander appeared in person at a routine Admiralty press conference. Correspondents got permission to enter erstwhile news no man's lands. M.O.I, released films and still photographs from cold storage...