Word: hops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Murray's business is up 50% to 100% (most in defense cities), has actually risen 300%...in Los Angeles. There 600 pupils pay $11,000 each month to learn the rumba, smooth swing, jitterbugging or "New Yorker" (West Coast name for the Lindy Hop...
Three years ago Africa's strategic potentialities were almost untouched. Now airfields pock equatorial jungle and flinty desert, hop-stops for U.S. planes ferried across the South Atlantic bound for Egypt and the Middle East. Gun snouts poke out of many an African harbor protecting supply bases and ports where vital convoys collect. U.S., British, Free French and Belgian officials shuttle across the once dark continent that is dark no longer...
...Washington needs 8,000 men & women to reinforce 34,000 workers in hop fields and orchards...
...only was it a bellyful of surprise; it was a shoeful of irritation to the hop-skipping Jap, to whom the total conquest of New Guinea is becoming increasingly difficult. Ever since he landed at Buna on the north shore July 22, he has been trying to get at Port Moresby. His land forces have worn themselves out on New Guinea's sharp-humped backbone. Now a sweep around the seacoast had been wrecked...
...women at Oberlin College (Ohio), her post before she went to Wellesley, she had to enforce a rule that women students must not leave town without permission. One day she spied six Oberlin undergraduates-three men, three women-standing on the outskirts of town trying to thumb a ride. "Hop in, boys," she called, stopping her car. "I'm sorry I can't take you girls along too-but you know the college rules...