Word: home
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Forces officer, Brig. General William L. Lee, and was slapped in the face for his pains. (The general was shortly reduced in rank.) In Athens Maragon announced himself as Harry Truman's great friend, waved a picture of himself and the President, and was finally ordered home as a nuisance...
Meanwhile, though he continued to live like a little shot in a lower-middle-brow home in McLean, Va., he began to act more & more like a big operator and a man who knows the right people. As a result, the Senate's special investigations subcommittee called him in to ask him if he was causing the republic any harm...
...Frank was at the barroom door to greet them. "Hello, partner," bellowed Boykin. "Everything's made for love." The guests dug in. First there was a little buffet Frank had scraped together from his 100,000-acre hunting preserve in Choctaw County, Ala. and Deep Freeze lockers down home in Mobile -salmon from Quebec, venison from Alabama, elk from Montana, bear meat from the Okefenokee Swamp, turkey from Georgia, antelope from Chugwater, Wyo. Also a big batch of coon, possum and .'taters from Alabama's First Congressional District which, proclaimed the booming host...
...Home of the Brave. A combat case history that slugs hard at anti-Negro prejudice (TIME...
Dollars from Britain. A year after their marriage Faie and Bill Joyce went to England, and made the first of their international deals that now include licensing arrangements in England, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, Mexico and Peru. The home office delivers the design, advertising and selling campaigns-and production know-how. Joyce's British partners, for example, after training at his Pasadena plant, managed to boost their own man-hour output by 50%. The result: Joyce footwear that sells in the U.S. for $2.95 to $10.95 sells for only a little more in Britain, which is about half...