Word: nones
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble deepened he got little aid or comfort from his seconds. After he left Sun Valley, Idaho, he stopped at the desert hamlet of Carey (pop. 600), was handed a wreath, asked to dedicate the airport. None of the traveling White House secretariat bothered to check on the name of the citizen for whom the field was being named. Gravely, the President began: "I'm honored to dedicate this airport, and present this wreath to the parents of the brave boy who died fighting for his country...
...officer jump up & down with rage and then pin a medal on him. There was hardly a dogface in the 9th Division who didn't know him or hadn't heard of him. Few knew that he got his mail addressed to Pvt. Karl C. Warner. None knew that his real name was Karl Petusky...
...caught on yet. He hit in 23 consecutive games (the season's longest batting streak). He boasts a fat average of .379 (third highest in the league). In center field, he obviously needs polish, but he covers ground like a wing-footed dervish. His weakness: a none-too-robust throwing arm. Skeptics like to point out that many a brilliant spring rookie has faded before September. But Richie is already being referred to as "Rookie of the Year...
...barometer, the stock market has proved none too accurate, notably in the last two years. Back in 1937, the market fall was far worse than the drop in production; since 1942, the market has been much lower-in comparison with the gross national product-than it was even in the dark days of 1932 (see chart). The Dow-Jones industrials, now earning even more ($20 a share) than they did in 1929, are selling for only half as much...
...that the Government was about to buy large quantities of lard for export. The memo had been put on a table with a pile of official releases, in the Department of Agriculture's Washington newsroom, one day last fall. But there was something phony about it: it had none of the usual headings or signatures. When newsmen questioned its authorship, the Department began investigating and finally traced it to a commodity trader named Ralph W. Moore, onetime lobbyist and crony of Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas, who also likes to speculate in commodities...