Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soldier's Mother. Horn talked to his mother. Horn's brother had been on Corregidor with the 4th Marines when the Japs took over the Philippines. All they had ever heard about Bill was the letter from the Army saying he was a prisoner...
Horn talked to his mother about Bill, who would...
When Duke Carter returned, the Japs had given up trying. As Bill Harrell was carried away he opened his eyes and muttered: "Get that saber for me." Carter got it, sent it home to his friend's mother in Mercedes...
...Mother Hubbard. OPA magnanimously dropped rationing of about 6,000 new 1942 cars still in the nation's stock pile, scarcely enough to meet one day's prewar demand. Many dealers, to avoid argument, simply went right on selling cars only to holders of top priorities. OPA also announced that, when the new cars roll off production lines, they will be rationed at first to the same eight classes of essential drivers who previously got stockpile cars...
...word radar - provided you spell it backwards." Washington has been grinning over this story for weeks. For censorship officers, the story has a double sting: they are well aware that radar has been one of the worst-kept secrets of the war. A favorite gag pictures a mother remarking to her husband: "John, don't you think we ought to tell Junior about radar, before he picks it up in the street...