Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attention of the House, then explodes. His constant subject is the national debt, his constant refrain, "Where are we going to get the money?" For years Mr. Rich has stuck to his point and that question. The House has become so used to Mr. Rich that members often join in the chorus, roaring in unison: "Where are we going to get the money...
This week at Brooklyn Navy Yard the U.S. Navy is to commission the 750-ft., 35,000-ton North Carolina, the first new battleship to join the U.S. Navy in 18 years. By July she will be ready to make her trial runs, then join the Fleet. Close behind will be her sister ship, the Washington, almost completed at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, and by next year the South Dakota.* And when the North Carolina goes into service, she will have profound effects on U.S. naval power and strategy...
Even bigger and faster battleships are on the way, probably will not begin to join the Fleet before 1943. On order are seven 45,000-tonners, designed to better the North Carolina's speed by several knots. Still on the drafting boards are plans for five even bigger ones. These undoubtedly will have even more gun power, at least equal armor protection. Whether they will be as fast as the North Carolina is still a moot point...
Jugoslav quarters said that, insofar as could be learned, the fleet has suffered no serious losses in the five days of German blitzkrieg and was able to move southward to join the British behind the screen of the Dalmatia Islands...
...while they harmonized on some speedy ditties like Paddlin' Madeline Home and Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue. It earned them $65 a week apiece, which bought all the fun they wanted. Just when everything was going smoothly, Paul Whiteman heard them, offered them $150 a week to join his show...