Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rugged, deceptive high-low Wasatch mountain range Trip 4 was the fifth commercial airliner to crash since 1934 for a total of 61 lives. For United Air Lines, holder of the National Safety Council's 1941 safety certificate, it marked the end of 17 months, and 409,000,000 revenue passenger miles, without fatality to passenger or crew...
...Memorial Hall each person will receive War Ration Book Number One, containing 28 ration stamps. Each stamp allows the holder to purchase a pound of sugar every two weeks. The stamps are issued free during registration and must be surrendered when sugar is purchased. No store can sell sugar unless it receives a stamp when the purchase is made...
General Stilwell chain-smoked cigarets in a long black holder, incessantly chewed gum, exchanged orders and information in his fluent Chinese (the fruit of 13 years' service in China). When Jap bombers broke up his conferences, he calmly took cover and kept on chewing gum. He soon saw that the Japanese blocked the way to Toungoo, that relief of the town was impossible without air support. A Chinese field radio flashed an order to the commander in Toungoo; at an appointed place and hour, he was to lead his men in a break through the Japanese lines. General Stilwell...
Enormous Al Blozis (Georgetown) holds the world's indoor shot-put record (57 ft. ¼ in.). But enormous Jack Torrance (former Louisiana cop) is holder of the outdoor record...
...Bataan kept watching for him. Once in a while he would come around. Everything about him-the angle of his heavily braided cap, the swing of his brown, curve-handled cane, the uptilt of his long black cigaret holder, the shine on his four stars and brown shoes-everything was always jaunty. The men watched for his smile: they usually...