Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bull's-Eye. Ghormley's first objective was soon announced. It was Tulagi, one of the best harbors in the Solomons, which the Jap had held since early June for his Indies defensive screen and for a jump-off place if he should decide to head south across the Australian supply line again...
Impulse. Over Camp Elliott, Calif., Lieut. William F. Schroeder, Navy medical officer, watched ten paratroopers leap from a low-flying plane, could not resist the urge to jump too. He was transferred to paratroop service...
...turnover. Trade associations have done much to clarify and expedite the intentions of these orders, and Washington promises a "Retailer's Digest" which will put them into storekeeper's English so that men with crops to catch and seasonal buying to plan will know which way to jump...
...production zoomed to an alltime high in the Aug. i week, and TIME'S index hit 180.0 (estimated). 1.6 points above the preceding week's final figure. Main reason for the rise was a big jump in power production, especially in the Southern and Pacific Coast areas...
George Thomas Cummins, cockney moviemaker of London has found that the old socialist sidewalk technique is sound business-the way to get an audience is to jump on a soapbox and raise your voice. The Cummins soapbox is British Paramount News,* makers of news shorts, which Cummins organized in 1931, and of which he is director and editor...