Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Placid Surface. Philadelphians general ly accepted the discomforts and irritations of the tie-up with Quakerlike placidity-and even with some good humor. Ration boards stayed open until late at night, issuing emergency gasoline rations to any A-card holder who promised to carry a earful with him. The Army & Navy pressed hundreds of jeeps and trucks into service to keep production going at the Army Ordnance Depot and the Navy Yard. But the Philadelphia transit system regularly carries 1,150,000 persons a day. Thousands had to walk, on days when the thermometer shot to 97 degrees...
...seems still quite ready to enjoy a series of new and even-more-exciting crises. Sitting with a caller in his upstairs study he sometimes pushes his freewheeling chair back from his cluttered desk and sits still for a minute chewing reflectively on the tip of his cigaret holder. At such moments the deep lines in Roosevelt's face suggest that he is listening to some sound that pleases him-as though the subdued hum of the household behind the closed door, the murmur of the capital beyond the curtained windows, and further away still the vast chatter...
Last week his number was crossed out. Rear Admiral Charles P. Cecil, 50, holder of a Navy Cross with Gold Star (i.e., two crosses), died when an airplane in which he was riding crashed at a Pacific base. He was the ninth flag officer (plus one general officer of the Marines) lost by the Navy in operations or action in World War II. The Army's loss in opposite numbers: 15 general officers dead, six missing, 18 prisoners of war (from the Philippines...
...Sweden's Gunder Hägg; a two-mile race, beating his own two-mile world record of 8:46:4 by three and six-tenths seconds; at Stockholm Stadium. His great rival Arne Andersson, one-mile record holder (TIME, July 31), did not compete...
None in the train were heroes to themselves, or to each other. But all knew what everyone had done. The marines pointed out Sergeant Al Goguen, onetime cab driver, holder of the Silver Star, unofficially credited with killing 700 Japs on two successive nights. But Al said: "Everybody tries to snow the folks. I had two machine guns, and I grabbed the guns a couple of times when my gunner got shot, until the assistant gunner came up. But that was my job. . . . Those figures? God, I don't know how many Japs we got. Everybody tries to snow...