Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louisville Courier-Journal: ". . . Although we were paid well for our acreage, still it isn't so easy to stand by and see the familiar old oak, the lilacs, hollyhocks and roses around the door trampled under foot to make way for the giant smokestacks that rose almost overnight...
...those who expected the automobile industry's mass-production wizards to work overnight miracles were bound to be disappointed. Charles Sorensen is certainly such a wizard. Ford's great shops can make some of the machine tools which Pratt & Whitney has to get from outside suppliers. Ford foundries will produce alloys which P. &W. buys (from Aluminum Co. of America). Sorensen & colleagues took over Pratt &Whitney's production methods in the main, but have already worked out some speed-up tricks. Experienced P. & W. men are on the job in Detroit, both to teach and to learn...
...Onetime bankrupt, thief, forger, wife deserter, John A. Sutter became a highly successful rancher in the Sacramento valley. Then in 1848 gold was discovered on his property. Result: 17,221 squatters moved in, ruined him overnight...
...this week, the team should not be weakened offensively. Defensively, however, it is a different story because the Heiden MacKinney due is far stronger than the MacKinney-Barnes combination. Heiden has been the Crimson defensive leader all season, and MacKinney will have a tough time stepping into his shoes overnight...
...rubber kings' naked native wives, French mistresses to replace them. Manaus went cultural, built a $5,000,000 opera house, closed it again when half the first opera company promptly died of yellow fever. There were also malaria, hookworm, poisonous insects, a Turkish-bath-like heat that overnight dissolved salt, gunpowder. But there was wealth, the apparently inexhaustible wealth of the "black gold...