Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faced Seabees in green baseball caps, looking like goggled gods on their bulldozers, invaded the tropical paradise with noise and construction. By last week they had moved enough of Guam's earth to bury Tokyo's Imperial Palace, with all its moats and carp ponds. In nine months they had built the greatest advance base in the Pacific-some 5,000 miles from San Francisco, and but 1,500 miles from Japan...
While the ruling showed a lively diversity of opinion, the Court's session-now closed-found the Justices gradually settling into a pattern. It was not as sharply defined as in the days of the Nine Old Men. It looked something like this: Justices Black, Douglas, Murphy and Rutledge on the left wing; Justices Roberts, Jackson, Stone, and the onetime red-hot New Dealer Frankfurter on the right. Frequently the deciding man was Justice Reed...
...even of Wilson. The oilcans, the machine guns, the bomb-wrecked homes looked alike. But the aspirations of men, from land to land, were vastly different. All wanted security ("Give peace in our time, O Lord"). But on what other fundamental did they agree? Area of Agreement. Yet for nine weeks, and in surprising amity, the delegates at San Francisco labored together. One thing they had in common-nationhood, and the precious sovereignty which went with it. A great fact of San Francisco was that the nations were willing to give up a little of their sovereignty-just a little...
...reason why the Yankees stayed in the pennant race was apple-cheeked Hank Borowy (won 8, lost 2), with help from Swampy Donald and Floyd Bevens (they had nine wins between them, four defeats). Detroit had the best southpaw in the business, Lefty Hal Newhouser (9-4), with three stalwarts to lick him up. Also comfortably ahead of their bat ting competition: the Athletics' tall, thin submariner, Russ Christopher (10-2); Washington's knuckleballer Dutch Leon...
Similarly in Belgium, a fast-moving young Lieut. Colonel, Earl H. Zwingle, who was in the millinery business before the war, is now rebuilding trucks, jeeps, motors, etc., in 16 small plants tucked away in Brussels, and in nine other plants spread all over Belgium. Now, Operation Zwingle is turning out 5,000 reconditioned trucks a month, soon will double that. In devastated MÜnchen-Gladbach in Germany, the Army is also rebuilding motors in its "velvet shops" (salvage is velvet...