Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first jobs the boys had on a professional basis was accompanying silent films at a local movie palace. One afternoon they went into "Bugle Call Rag" as Tom Mix ran down the rustlers, and Dave North was sailing into his fourteenth piano chorus when trombonist Floyd O'Brien glanced up at the screen. The newsreel had come on and Marshal Foch was laying a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier...
...view of the fact that Quartermaster-issued poison has been found to kill an ant just as dead as Engineering-issued poison-and vice versa-request is made that your office draw identical poisons for issue to this office from both Engineering and Quartermaster, and mix same so that there will be no way of knowing which poison killed the ant-the assumption being that no well-bred G.I. ant would eat other than poison issued through proper channels to final destination, which destination being the aforementioned dead or dying...
...last week news came from Moscow that Russian youth in all primary and secondary grades will be segregated by sexes. Russian youth will still dance to gether, still mix in theatricals, literary discussions, sports. But beginning with the coming school year, education will be different for boys & girls above the age of eight. New York Timesman Alexander Werth (Moscow War Diary) wirelessed the explanation of one Soviet school director...
...hand. I finally got a seat in the men's room of a Pullman car. Arriving at Springfield, Mo. ... I once again held a reservation for an upper berth, but was informed very pleasantly by the conductor that the people in Kansas City had had a slight mix-up and that John Q. Civilian was once again in my berth. I rode once again upon a collapsing suitcase into Atlanta, and decided to take a chance on reporting a day late, and get some sleep, which I did in a fine hotel there. Having previously made arrangements for Pullman...
...problem was to lick the manpower and housing shortage, the intense, bone-chilling 35°-below-zero Soo winters, in order to slash the 20-month scheduled estimate. When weary workers poured the last concrete-mix a fortnight ago, the scheduled time had been slashed by seven months. For this feat, an Army and Navy E went to the Great Lakes company...