Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hat and spirits, Prime Minister Winston Churchill last week bounced by carriage to London's bomb-pocked Guildhall. There he spoke of appetizing victories on the battlefronts, of greater Allied attacks to come. He was proud of Britain as it is ("I rejoice in the soundness of our institutions and proclaim my faith in our destiny"). With this Britain he asked the U.S. to cooperate, now and forever...
Pull-Out. In his battered felt good-luck hat (he puts it on first thing in the morning, takes it off at bedtime), Riebel moved ponderously through the four Brewster plants (two in Long Island City, one in Newark, one in Johnsville, Pa.), shaking hands, telling everyone: "Call me Skippy." At first suspicious, workers soon got a kick out of calling the boss Skippy, got a bigger kick after he installed a huge new cafeteria in the final assembly plant at Johnsville, organized baseball teams, wangled the Government housing project for Johnsville. To get production on bombers, he balanced...
Wasn't Commandeer Sherwood's announcement unique last Tuesday morning? "I am pleased to announced that Mr. Custer has lost his hat and Mr. Unwin has begat himself a seven pound daughter." Congratulations, Ed, damn good cigars. Nice breaking the trend toward sons. Who's gonna drive the street cars if all our newborn enlist in V-12? How about that Frank P, "Jake...
...this Long John has plenty to show. His salary - salary-from Stiers Bros. Construction Co. of St. Louis - tops $36,000 a year, four to six times the pay of most tunnel superintendents. He also has a collection of hats-all won by breaking records. When he won his last bet, an opera hat, he blurted: "What the hell does anyone my height do with a high silk hat...