Word: mention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mention the "hard, unhappy-looking men" keeping to themselves along the Atlantic City boardwalk and brooding over their 3.2 beer [TIME, Sept.11]. I was one of the original band who opened the redistribution center in October of 1943. We were "war-wearies" from all theaters and had had more than our fill of combat, but we were too happy to be home and alive to do any brooding. After the first shock of being treated like gentlemen we settled down to enjoy the marvelous facilities the army provided for our entertainment and enjoyment. We did not avoid civilians...
...have just read with interest your account of the "Brotherly Greed" of Senators Reynolds, McKellar and Chandler (TIME, Aug. 28), who happily propose that the U.S. take permanent possession of Bermuda, Trinidad, Jamaica, the Bahamas and other British territory (not to mention numerous possessions of France, Holland, Russia, Mexico, Ecuador...
...three whole days no buzz-bombs fell on the London area. For the first time, the German communique made no mention of "V1 fire on London." Liberated Paris, however, got a nasty start when it was announced that robombs had fallen "in the Seine basin" (i.e., somewhere within 40 miles of Paris). The Allied censorship in Paris showed itself as tough as London's; nothing was disclosed except that there had been "casualties and damage...
...subcommittee called this statement a "misrepresentation." The Senators pointed to Treasury Department figures for November 1943, which showed 392,063,092 tax gallons of whiskey in bonded warehouses. They charged that the distillers had also failed to mention in their ad: 1) the 30,000,000 proof gallons of neutral spirits in bonded warehouses which would be blended with much of the straight whiskey before sale; 2) the fact that in most blends distilled water is added to cut the proof from too to 86. Also, the industry's estimate of 96,000,000 gallons for leakage, evaporation...
Henry Wallace, traveler to China, looked up in surprise at this mention of politics. In a tone of gentle rebuke, he said he just did not understand what they were talking about. For himself, his mind was on China, on the world. Baffled, Sam Rosenman went back to his food...