Word: packed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mucci's men were a tough breed. Formerly they had been a pack field artillery unit whom Mucci himself had trained as combat troops two years ago in New Guinea. Mucci was a West Pointer, son of a Bridgeport, Conn, horse dealer. In command of his Filipinos: Major Robert Lapham, who had been fighting with the guerrillas since before the fall of Corregidor. Mucci's force had suffered some casualties: three wounded, 27 killed...
They bought dress goods, rubbers and overshoes, canned goods, cosmetics. They bought Canadian cigarets at 35? a pack. But most of all they wanted meat. With arms laden with bacon, beef, ham, canned meats, chicken, and even rabbit, they headed back to the U.S. On the Detroit side of the Detroit River, they filled the U.S. customs office to overflowing...
...very day that Jim, husband number one, shows up at a nearby seaport, an embarrassing situation rears its provocative head. From the simple idea of what each member of the family imagines he will say to the returning hero, Barry has fashioned a series of artful dream sequences which pack a comic punch and no little satire...
Last week, TACA's square-jawed President Lowell Yerex gave bite for bite, came up with a new permit to operate in Colombia. TACA de Colombia will be a TACA affiliate, owned 45% by the parent company and 55% by Colombians. Operating in the pack-mule fashion that made it in 1942 the world's No. 1 freight flyer, the Yerex airline will pit two Douglas DC-2½s (DC-2s with DC-3 wings, double doors and reinforced bottoms) and a twin-engine Beechcraft against Pan Am's deluxe equipment. If it needs more money...
Their plan (adopted at a conference of the National Association of Tobacco Distributors in Chicago): voluntary rationing. Retailers will issue as many numbered ration cards to their customers as their stocks permit, and punch once for every pack sold. Dealers will honor only cards signed by themselves. To get cards, customers will have to sign declarations swearing they will hold no other dealer's card...