Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winifred Fisher, Executive Director of the New York Adult Education Council, passed on a comment Dean Langmuir, investment counselor and brother of the electrical Irving, recently made to her. " 'The World and America' is perfectly wonderful," he said. "I wouldn't miss it for anything. I ought to know these things but I don't, or if I ever knew them I've forgotten them...
...Illinois' Ralph Church: "I don't like this proposition of dangling new ranks around. We ought to get the truth of Pearl Harbor first...
...backed down the sidings to draw new rolling stock from ferries. Giant cranes lifted locomotives from other ships. Ducks loaded with supplies slid through the water and rolled up to the concrete storage squares. At night powerful searchlights lit the harbor for all-night shifts. (Capture of Le Havre ought soon to ease the strain on Cherbourg and the beaches; now ships will be able to proceed up the Seine itself to Rouen, 75 miles from Paris...
...enterprise and ingenuity. The kids lost money. Friday they combined the stuff they had left, opened up for business and said they were going to stay open until they sold it. They are selling their sandwiches, pop and coffee at the reduced rate of a nickel. . . . We ought all to give the kids a break, come uptown and help them out of the hole...
...Army tried to get rumman to camouflage his plants, he objected, said it was unnecessary and would interfere with production. When the Army insisted, Grumman said: "From the-air, we find the plant by flying over to Mitchel Field and taking our directions from the runways there. Maybe you ought to camouflage them first." The Army quit bothering him. The Navy lets Grumman do things much as he wants, sure they will be all right. Said Vice Admiral John McCain : "The name Grumman on a plane or a part is like sterling on silver...