Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason we were able to jump the gun is that we have sense enough to see that it's good business to talk over production problems with our men. It's good business because, damn it all, it's their business...
...Salvation Army lost $1,600,000 worth of equipment during the 1940 retreat in France. General and Mrs. Carpenter, who were in France themselves at the time, several times got out of towns a jump ahead of the Nazis...
Last week came new bridge-crossing orders for tankers: only the driver will ride in the tank, stripped of equipment and ready to jump...
...heal their University's sickly football prestige. In unheard-of generosity, Ohio high-school coaches formally petitioned Ohio State's athletic board to try their 32-year-old colleague, promised to steer the cream of their football crops to the University if it did. But to jump from scholastic football into the Big Ten requires the courage of a Commando. Pedantic Paul Brown...
...course: pay milk distributors a direct subsidy so that retail prices can be kept down. In New York City alone the subsidy already amounts to about $15,000 a day-and it will have to be doubled this month if it is to keep pace with the latest jump in fluid-milk prices. This means that complicated subsidies-and increasing ones at that-have now spread even into the distribution field...