Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MacWilliams checked the weather and the military situation. A chalked caution on the briefing board read: "Suchow general situation calm. Fighting going on southeast ten kilometers away. Never circle over or come down to look at fighting area." MacWilliams stopped to talk with other pilots warming their hands over a coal stove. Like MacWilliams, a former U.S. Navy search pilot, they had come to China after the war because they liked flying and could make good money. In a busy month they could net as much as the equivalent...
...Christmas tree dealers." Last year they undercut upstate New York dealers by selling 20,000 trees from their Val-Kill farm at $1 each. This month, with the price up from 75? to 95? apiece, they will take 50,000 trees to Manhattan, where tree dealers have never spared the customer...
...swish Metropolitan opened up (see above), Manhattan's common-man's opera ($3 top) shut down. Last week the New York City Opera Company went out on the road, and in Chicago got the kind of ermine-and-top-hat opening it never gets at home. It was the only opera Chicagoans would see all year. But if Chicago and the visiting opera company liked each other, they might form a partnership...
...Music can give three iceboxes away instead of two and get listeners, it's a silly business to be in anyway." And what about death & taxes? "You wind up being a sieve for the Treasury Department . . . All you're working toward is a coffin, and I never saw one with a built-in safe...
Because his house stayed put and never suffered the hazards of the sea, its ebulliently baroque decorations are among the handful of surviving monuments to maritime woodcarving...