Word: labelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...self-styled realism of those who label Communist anyone who can find any merit in the Russian system is as short-sighted as the thinking of the "practical" isolationists of the twenties and thirties. For those who think that this war is being fought to spread the American system of private enterprise throughout the world are in for a tremendous surprise. Russia, England, and China will be at the peace table, insisting just as strongly on their views as the United States will on hers. The recognition of the important element of compromise and collaboration beforehand is the only realism...
...into Darling. These results, while not yet enough to label the P-38 another "best in the world," proved the versatility of a plane that was once the dog of the Air Forces. It is almost four years since Army Test Pilot Lieut. Ben Kelsey flew the first P-38 across the continent in a near-record 7¾ hours' flying time, only to crash when one of the plane's engines conked out at Mitchel Field, N.Y. Before pilots learned to bail out by diving the plane and somersaulting forward, some had their legs sliced...
Only danger was that some literal-minded OWI newcomer might some day refer to the defeat of the French armies at Blenheim by Austria's Prince Eugene, might label it a World War II* development, might thus thoroughly mystify the U.S. public...
Finally, a lot more headaches and $250,000 later, the La Paz bobbed up again-and stayed afloat. Much of her juicy cargo turned out to be intact, including $50,000 worth of Johnnie Walker Black Label...
...bossed the Capone-rivaling Touhy mob during Chicago's gory beer-war and kidnap-racket days, until sentence in 1934 cut him down. Slant-eyed Basil Banghart, 41, the Touhy mob's tommy-gunner, likewise was serving 99 years for the Factor job. Chicago detectives label him "a regular sharpie," tougher by far than Tough Touhy. Completely dedicated to crime and proud of his profession, Banghart is smart, energetic, fast-talking. The other escapers were no cookie pushers: James O'Connor, 36, serving one year to life for robbery, who escaped twice before; William Stewart, 43, Matthew...