Word: mule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Knutson, who already has his own $5.6 billion tax-reduction bill on the fire, cried: "My God, I didn't know inflation had gone that far. Tom Pendergast paid only $2 a vote and now Truman proposes to pay $40." Cracked House Majority Leader Charles Halleck: "What, no mule...
...reference to the post-Civil War promise of Northern carpetbaggers to freed slaves: "Forty acres and a mule...
Hankow, on the middle Yangtze, was a city of refuge last week. Into it from newly abandoned mission stations in Honan and. northern Hupeh provinces-by rail, truck, mule cart and often on foot-trekked American missionaries. They felt unable any longer to live and work in an area where Chinese Communists now marched almost at will. Three missionaries had been shot to death by "bandits" who hauled them from a bus shouting: "You are Americans, and Americans must die!" They were Martha Anderson of Minneapolis, Esther Nordlund of Chicago, and Dr. Alexis Berg of Finland, all attached...
...have seen are G.I. rations. Said one muleteer: "Those rations are all right if you've got to eat them, as we had to during a siege; but, don't misunderstand me, Miss, to tell you the truth, they are not our kind of food. Even my mule Nickola would not eat that corn...
...Konitsa (achieved partly with U.S. arms), but that success could be overestimated. All of Greece, like little Konitsa, was besieged by Communism. The larger siege must be lifted and Greece must be made safe. This the Truman Doctrine had stated. It would take more than a dash up a mule track by hardy Greek soldiers to achieve that end. How much would it take? No one was sure, but last week the U.S. Navy provided a clue. It announced that it was sending enough U.S. Marines to its Mediterranean force (the big aircraft carrier Midway, three light cruisers...