Word: jettisons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dodgers, whose loud Lippy Leo Durocher threatened to jettison his ancient outfield-Walker, Galan and Rosen -and gamble on three rambunctious rookies named Carl Furill, Gene Hermanski and Dick Whitman. With Mickey Owen in Mexico, he would depend on Rookie Ferrell Anderson behind the plate. The Dodgers were pointing mainly...
Because the Zaibatsu exercise such control over Japan's economy and would cheerfully jettison the militarists, the dangerous tendency, Roth believes, is for the U.S. to leave Japan's private affairs largely to them. By doing so the U.S. would certainly "maintain unchanged the internal conditions that were basically responsible for launching Japan on her campaign of conquest...
Britain had staked out a formal claim to interest in the affairs of Yugoslavia. She still recognized King Peter. But the Yugoslavs seemed about ready to jettison their King. In Belgrade the Government was dominated by Marshal Tito, a Communist...
...General Frederick W. Castle, who continued combat flying even after he got his star, was piloting a Flying Fortress on a mission over Belgium when seven Messerschmitts attacked. Bullets ignited an oxygen tank, which threatened to explode the Fortress' bomb load. Lean, young (36) General Castle refused to jettison the load, because U.S. troops were underneath. With two engines afire, he leveled out, and stayed at the controls while his crew bailed out. He was still in the plane when a fuel tank exploded, sent plane and pilot to the ground in flames...
...these combined yearnings appeared on U.S. newsstands in the form of a new magazine, Pageant, edited by Lyons, published by Hillman. To get the paper for a new mass magazine (first issue: 500,000 copies), Publisher Hillman had to sacrifice some of his old ones. He decided to jettison the detectives and comics, which have been netting $250,000 annual profit...