Word: owing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Says he: "For years my great love has been the U.S. Navy. I know more about it than most nonprofessionals. I know every ship. Nothing in my life has ever hurt me as much as what happened at Pearl Harbor. What a horrible thing those in charge did. They owe for the lives of every man killed there. Maybe the Japanese have something in this hara-kiri business...
Southern Railway last week paid off its last bank loan, thus joined the aristocracy of U.S. railroads whose members owe neither the banks...
...stone on a steel skeleton. Only steel in St. John's is in the roof beams above the vault, where the Gothic churches had wooden beams. Another old-fashioned feature: it has been built, unit after unit, only when the money was on hand. "We don't owe a penny," said proud Bishop Manning last week...
Three singing sisters from Minneapolis made another 2? last week. The Andrews Sisters had sold the 8,000,000th of the discs for which Decca Records pays them 2? apiece. The Andrews girls are the first sister act to owe fame & fortune to the juke box alone...
...owe it to ourselves, we owe it to our Russian allies and to the Government and people of the United States, to make it absolutely clear that whether we are supported or alone, however long and hard the toil may be, the British nation and His Majesty's Government at the head of that nation in intimate concert with the governments of the great dominions, will never enter into any negotiations with Hitler or with any party in Germany which represents the Nazi regime...