Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Young knew that he would have the passengers on his side. He knows how they grouse at changing trains. Said he: "It's disgraceful. Hogs get better service than passengers; they don't have to change cars." This week Bob Young and Otis & Co. offered $70 million-odd for 7,098 Pullman Co. cars...
Chester Bowles and his OPA were under fire last week. Retail merchants, after scanning the list of 1000-odd consumer luxury items released from price controls, decided that OPA's mountainous labors had brought forth a mouse...
Early in March, 1805, General Eaton strode forth to follow the route made famous 138 years later by British Field Marshal Montgomery. His army was a motley crew consisting of Hamet, some 90 of his Arab followers, seven U.S. marines under Lieut. Presley O'Bannon, 40-odd cutthroat Greeks and Italians recruited in Alexandria, an Italian "chief of engineers" (who had been by turns a Capuchin monk, an Indian dervish and a soldier of fortune) and a caravan of 190 camels at $11 a camel...
Nerve News. In Chicago, burglars got into police headquarters, leisurely cleaned the detective bureau of $10,000 in cash and jewelry, left a litter of 70-odd cigaret butts and burnt matches. Few days later gunmen pinched one of Mayor Kelly's brand-new police-escort cars, used it in four holdups, finally abandoned it and vanished without trace...
...music lessons and instruments to rehearse on. In a year, 45 volunteer teachers have given more than 3,000 lessons, and some 12,000 servicemen have practiced in the Canteen atop the Homer L. Kitt music store in downtown Washington. (The store donates the space, and keeps the 100-odd available instruments in repair...